sralston@srwic.UUCP (Steve Ralston) (01/02/91)
In article <1990Dec28.144228.7436@funet.fi> jja@kaarne.tut.fi (Ahola Jari) writes: (Concerning Esix rev D + Wangtek 1/4" controller + Caliper 120MB drive) >My problem with above SW and HW combination is that it does not work as it >should be. Controller is found during boot up and [...stuff removed...] >and prints the ever so helpfull 'Tape write error' message. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ First, turn the write-protect thingy so the arrow points AWAY from SAFE. :-) Sorry, I couldn't resist. And now I have to admit to thinking of this LAST a time or two myself... ahem, but that was way back when I *first* started working with QIC tapes. Seriously, I can think of several OTHER reasons that you might be having problems; tape media comes to mind. For example, a Archive Viper 150 [SCSI] can READ, but NOT WRITE a 3M DC300 XL/P data cartridge (450', 6400-10,000 ftpi, 310 oersted). I am not familiar with the Caliper 120, but assume it writes [only] QIC-120 format tapes, so you would [minimally] need DC600 media (600', 10,000-12,500 ftpi, 550 oersted). What the hell is "oersted" anyway? A couple of things you really need to know (I sure would want to) is: "Does the Wangtek/Caliper combo play together?" "Has anybody else made it work on any system?" Of course that's what the net is here for, right? Sorry I can't answer either of those questions. You might try calling Wangtek; they seem to have fairly good tech support (just my opinion). -- Steve Ralston sralston@srwic.UUCP 235 N Zelta voice: 316-686-2019 Wichita, KS 67206 ..!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwic!srwic!sralston
jja@news.funet.fi.tut.fi (Ahola Jari) (01/06/91)
From article <201@srwic.UUCP>, by sralston@srwic.UUCP (Steve Ralston): > In article <1990Dec28.144228.7436@funet.fi> jja@kaarne.tut.fi (Ahola Jari) > writes: > (Concerning Esix rev D + Wangtek 1/4" controller + Caliper 120MB drive) >>My problem with above SW and HW combination is that it does not work as it >>should be. Controller is found during boot up and [...stuff removed...] >>and prints the ever so helpfull 'Tape write error' message. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > First, turn the write-protect thingy so the arrow points AWAY from SAFE. :-) > First thing to do .... > Sorry, I couldn't resist. And now I have to admit to thinking of this LAST > a time or two myself... ahem, but that was way back when I *first* started > working with QIC tapes. > > Seriously, I can think of several OTHER reasons that you might be having > problems; tape media comes to mind. For example, a Archive Viper 150 [SCSI] > can READ, but NOT WRITE a 3M DC300 XL/P data cartridge (450', 6400-10,000 ftpi, > 310 oersted). I am not familiar with the Caliper 120, but assume it writes > [only] QIC-120 format tapes, so you would [minimally] need DC600 media > (600', 10,000-12,500 ftpi, 550 oersted). What the hell is "oersted" anyway? > I use DC600XTD tapes which is the type to be used with Caliper CP-125. > A couple of things you really need to know (I sure would want to) is: > "Does the Wangtek/Caliper combo play together?" Yes, it works without problems under Dos with Sytos. > "Has anybody else made it work on any system?" > Of course that's what the net is here for, right? Sorry I can't answer > either of those questions. You might try calling Wangtek; they seem to have > fairly good tech support (just my opinion). And I still hasn't got a solution to this problem of mine. > -- > Steve Ralston sralston@srwic.UUCP > 235 N Zelta voice: 316-686-2019 > Wichita, KS 67206 ..!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwic!srwic!sralston -jja Jari 'jja' Ahola |Tampere University of Technology, Signal Processing Lab Opiskelijankatu 16A12 |P.O. Box 527, 33101 Tampere, Finland 33720 Tampere, Finland|Tel (intl) 358 31 162708 (work)/358 31 174009 (home) Puh. 931-174009 |Net address: jja@tut.fi, AHOLA@FINTUTA (BITNET), bix:jja