#: 11305 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    06-Jul-91  18:54:42
Sb: #Tape drive(r) problems
Fm: Robert Heller 71450,3432
To: anyone

I recently upgraded to OS-9/68K V2.4 on my Force CPU-30 and now have
some time to fuss with the tape drive (after backing up 25Meg to 40
floppies).  With this version of the SCSI drivers, my "oddball"
(Archive Scorpion (5945C) + Adaptec ACB3530 SCSI  QIC-36
controller), seems to work.  Sort of.  Using the Viper driver (meant
for Archive's QIC-150 SCSI drive) it reads QIC-24 tapes fine.  What it
writes is another matter.  I did a fsave and then tried a frestore -v
and got a message that the ident block was bad.  I then tried using a
PD tar program, but when I tried to read it, got a tar header checksum
error and my home-grown tar clone on my other machine (Stride 440 -
same type of drive, with Archives QIC-02  QIC-36 controller board)
also had trouble reading the tape (various errors).

What I'd like to know:  do I need to write a completly new driver for
this combination or is there some minor thing I need to change with
one of the existing drivers to make this work?  Or is there something
wrong with the drive or controller board?  No driver errors are
reported in any case.

I would like to be able to use the tape for backups - using floppies
is a pain...

             Robert

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