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 > From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich) 
 > Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting 
 >  
 > Thanks to the net for help getting my AHA-1542B to work with my 1.5 Gig 
 > Maxtor P1-17S. I have made an incremental enhancement to my system and 
 > have a new problem. I wish to add a tape backup unit, so I got what 
 > Hard Drives International said would work with my system -- a Sankyo 
 > CP-150SE unit with a DL 6250 cartridge. I can't get the "GTAK" gnu tar 
 > "tape" utility to recognize the tape drive [TAPE RET fails with error 31]. 
 >  
 > heaps deleted 
 > 
 > Can anyone recommend a relatively inexpensive tape drive that DOES work 
 > with an AHA-1542 and GTAK gnu tar under OS/2? [Note that my current problems

 > do not seem to be OS/2 related -- I can't get the Adaptec to recognize 
 > the take drive -- so it isn't a software compatibility problem.] 
 >  
 > I was considering a WangDAT drive if I can't get this drive working, but 
 > heard on the net somewhere that DAT's could only be recycled a few times 
 > before they become unusable due to the tape stretching. Is this true? 
 >  
 > All help and advice appreciated. 
 >  
 > orville 
 >  
Orville, 
     I have a similar system operating here. I use an Adaptec 1542B on 
my 486/50 with the following devices: 
 
Internal Seagate 316mb SCSI Drive at ID0 (Terminated)(End of cable) 
Internal Syquest 88mb removable drive at ID1 (Not Terminated) 
Internal 1542B controller card at ID7 (Default, NOT TERMINATED) 
External Wangtek 5150ES tape drive at ID4 (Terminated) 
 
     With the above setup, if the external tape drive is removed from  
the 1542b, I must fit a SCSI terminator to the outside of the 1542b. 
 
Set the tape drive to ID4 (Unix standard) and the CD-ROM drive to 
ID6 (Again Unix standard). Leave ID0,1,2 & 3 for hard disks. Ensure  
that if the tape drive is external, that the terminators are removed  
from the 1542b. 
 
     Also make sure that the boot device is the end of the SCSI chain 
and is terminated. 
 
     GTAK201B works perfectly on the above setup. SCSI is not as  
simple as people think, and there are some rules that need to be  
followed when setting them up. 
 
     Hope this helps, 
 
     Chris 
 
 
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