avi@chinet.chi.il.us (Avi Schwartz) (08/29/90)
Some time ago I asked a question about using the hardware combination of
the Adaptec 1542A scsi adapter and the Wangtek 5150ES tape drive under dos.
Surprisingly I didn't receive any reply at all. On the other hand I received
a request to share the information when I find out, so here we go:
The above hardware combination CAN work very nicely under dos, but you need two
pieces of software from Adaptec. The first one is the backup software which is
actualy the SY-TOS tape operating system (SCSI version). I am not sure if the
version sold under the adaptec catalog number is different than the Sytron
version. The second piece of software is a dos device driver that serves as
the layer between the SCSI hardware and the software. It is a very usefull
device driver that has more purposes than just tape backups.
Adaptec's catalog numbers follow:
SY-TOS: ASW-210
ASPI MS-DOS Manager with ASPI Disk module: ASW-1410
When you get all the software install it and make sure you have a tape in
the drive BEFORE you run SY-TOS, or the program will fail with a weired message
and bomb out to dos without releasing its memory.
-- Avi
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