Wangtek Tape Drive on 386/ix

[Ed Cooley]

I have a Wangtek 125 Meg tape drive and PC-36 controller board.  When writing
to the tape with a tar command (ie. tar cvf /dev/tape *)  Everything works fine
however, the tape drive is extremely slow.  I have seen this drive under xenix
really fly.  I have checked the Interupt level, and that is ok.  The tape 
doesn't stream, it rewinds after writing only a short portion of tape.  

Another problem I encounter using the tape drive is a lock-up in the tar 
program when the tape gets full.  Once locked up, the only way to kill the
task is to reboot the system. 

The operating system is ISC 386/ix Release 2.0.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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