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From: sl at van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: tape streamers question
Message-ID: <2120 at van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 89 08:56:40 GMT
References: <1516 at bebux.UUCP> <895 at starfish.Convergent.COM> <314 at belltec.UUCP> <379 at ispi.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl at van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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>Not so! the PAL locks no one out ... you can run SCO just fine with our
>boards using the built-in SCO drivers.  Just make sure to set the interrupts,
>etc, correctly.  Note that SCO itself quotes Bell Tech boards as supported
>streamer tape plug ins in the SCO documentation.
>
>- dimitri rotow

Believe the man. It works fine with SCO built in drivers. 

I'm using an XTC external with SCO 2.3, using SCO's drivers. 

You may have to re-address the drive. Takes about 2 minutes.

I've also used an Archive 499 type controller with the Bell Tech drive and
SCO's drivers. Worked fine. 

There was no perceptible difference in speed between Bell Tech Controller
and driver; Archive Controller and Bell Tech drive; and Archive Controller
with Archive drive when all where used with SCO's drivers. They were all
*very* fast.

(For those who need to know, Bell Techs drive - at least in the box I have -
is a Wangtec. Archive's was a Sidewinder I believe.)

The only annoyance I have with the Bell Tech card is that it doesn't have an
internal cable header, so I can't use it with an internal drive.


-- 
Stuart.Lynne at wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532