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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!psinntp!dg-rtp!ponds.uucp!rivers From: rivers@ponds.uucp (Thomas David Rivers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Wangtek 5099/5150ES questions. Summary: How to read 5099 on a 5150ES, what are 5099 settings? Keywords: WANGTEK, 5099, 5150ES, SCSI tape, tape, QIC-120, QIC-60 Message-ID: <1992Dec15.012556.10779@ponds.uucp> Date: 15 Dec 92 01:25:56 GMT Lines: 50 While we're talking tape drives here, I have two questions to pose to the net-at-large. 1) I have replaced my Wangtek 5099-EN 24 (QIC-60 with it's own controller) with a Wangtek 5150ES, hung off of my SCSI controller. Although it seems to have no problems reading/writting new tapes (and it streams *very* well) it doesn't seem to be able to read tapes written with the 5099. It reads *some* of the tape, never very much... Is there some special magic to getting this to work? 2) I had to permute the settings on the 5099 controller making guesses until I hit on 0x300 as the address. You guessed it, I bought this second hand a *long* time ago, and go *no* documentation with it. I would appreciate if someone could send me the switch settings, etc... as I would like to have this tape drive in another box (to read the old tapes), but the 0x300 address conflicts with my NE2000 card. The controller looks like: +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | ASSY 30006-002 EV-835 REV. C | | | | | | ==---------- | ==---------- | ==----------- | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ==---Ribbon--- | On +--------------------+ ==----Cable--- | |S S S S S S S S S S | ==------------- | Off +--------------------+ ==------------- | ==------------- | IRQ O41 DRQ DACK | | 2345 67 123 123 | +--------------------------------+ +------------+ |||||||||||||||||||||| +--------------------+ Where the large block in the center (labelled "On"/"Off") is a set of 10 switches. The numbers items labeled IRQ (obviously Interrupte Requst #), 041, DRQ and DACK are jumpers. That is, each of the digits represents a single jumper, in a contiguous row - it's just hard to draw that... The board is made by Wangtek and is labelled "ASSY 30006-002 - REV. C". If anyone has any info about the switch settings, I'd really appreciate it. - Thanks - - Dave Rivers -