Bell Tech tape and Xenix drivers

[Wm. E. Davidsen Jr]

  I've asked this before, but I'll try to ask the question better in
hopes of a useful answer. I have a Bell Tech XTC 60MB tape drive with
the *short controller*. I need to run it with the Xenix/386 tape
drivers. After four calls the best Bell Tech can offer is that it should
work with the drivers for an Everex controller and Wangtek drive. It
doesn't work with any parameters I can set.

  I assume that I need to set some jumpers, but the doc I have, while
voluminous, don't tell me things like which jumps control the drive
number (someone said the drive is jumpered as three instead of one from
BT). Others have given me a lot of good info if I had the "long
controller." I assume that that's the old 499 controller I use at home.
I know how to jumper that one.

  If anyone has done this, (a) where are the drive number select
jumpers on the drive, (b) what paddles set the i/o address on the
controller, etc. I would think that BT would have a list of what to do
in terms of jumper settings, driver options, etc, but I guess they're
more into other systems.

  Any help would be really useful. Backing up several hundred MB of disk
to floppy is just not a reasonable thing to do.

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