Xenix and Archive Tape Drives (was: Xenix vs. Unix?)
Clarence Dold
dold at mitisft.Convergent.COM
Sat Sep 9 00:43:02 AEST 1989
in article <233 at usource.UUCP>, frankb at usource.UUCP (Frank Bicknell) says:
| In article <26 at fleet.UUCP> mel at .UUCP () writes:
|>In article <34 at nstar.UUCP> larry at nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
|> SCO Xenix isn't all that great at tape drive support either.
|> Ever since I switched to 2.3.1 Xenix it takes TWO attempts at
|> starting the tape drive. (I'm using an Archive 150 meg/QIC02
|> internal on my HP Vectra 386/RS20)
|
| Strange... we have a client who has been using an Archive 150M
| tape with 2.3.1 for a year or so without any such problems as
| you describe. Are there any interrupt/address nonsense
My Everex 386/20 with Archive 150 MB and ? SCSI adapter also takes
two tries, with absolute consistency.
XENIX/386 2.2, 2.2.2, 2.3.?
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