Cartridge Tape Units

[Bruce A. McIntyre]

In article <1094 at ispi.UUCP>, jbayer at ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
> qac at occrsh.ATT.COM (Quentin_Conner) writes:
>>>The drivers for the Archive are built into Xenix by SCO.  I am running this
>>>drive, and on 2.3.2 it goes like a bandit.
> 
>>I wonder if the driver from release 2.3.2 will work with 2.2.1 or
>>maybe I need to order an update from SCO.  (probably prohibitively expensive)
> 
> Assuming you are running 386 Xenix, the update from 2.2.1 to 2.3.2 will cost
> about $ 150 or so.  The driver seems to be built into the kernel, so I do 
> not think there is a way to move it from 2.3.2 to 2.2.1.

The update drivers for the short ARCHIVE board are available from either
ARCHIVE or from SCO.  You only have to request them, and the update disk
is available.  I have done this several times when upgrading an SCO system
from XENIX286 to XENIX386. You do NOT have to upgrade from 2.2.x to 2.3.x
as the drivers will be linked into the current kernal on installation of
the drivers.  It is then included when you configure the tape drive.  I use
Interrupt 5, as I don't have either a bus mouse or a second parallel printer.

The drivers built into the kernal for 2.2.x are for the LONG Archive controller
but you still need to configure it manually.  You cannot use the autoconfigure
mode, you must set the parameters when installing the drivers.  Note: The DOS
program delivered with the ARCHIVE drive will not work on a machine running
at a clock speed faster than 8-10 Mhz, but the XENIX drivers will work on
machines up to 20Mhz at least. (I have not tried it on any faster machines)

bruce
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