Dell tape drive with Xenix?
Alan Mintz
alan at ahmcs.uucp
Tue May 7 11:16:30 AEST 1991
In article <3402 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>
> Has anyone been able to use the Dell 150MB tape drive (Wangtek) with
> Xenix, and if so what's the secret? I configured the type as W, i/o
> ports, interrupt and DMA, but the device is still not found. Is this OEM
> drive hacked to the point where it won't work with standard drivers, or
> is there some subtle trick needed to get it working?
Hmmm. We do it all the time in Dell as well as other machines. "mkdev tape"
should look like:
Tape Parameters Values Comments
--------------- ------ --------
1. Controller Type 3 1 = type A, 3 = type W, 4 = type E,
5 = type M, 6 = type T or 7 = type X
2. DMA Channel 1 1 or 3
3. Interrupt Vector 5 logical vector number
4. Base Address 0338H i/o addresses start here
Zero Values Imply Auto-Configuration
Maybe there is something special about the 0x338 address. I recall some
difficulty trying to use 0x300.
Oh. Now that I think about it, if the pins on the bus card point up
(as opposed to out), you have the "Wangtek/Tecmar Single-Chip Tape Controller"
and will need to either XNX155B or XNX149 your XENIX.
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