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tjb@NeoSoft.com (Timothy J. Bogart) writes:

>Since you admitted you work for exebyte, I guess I can figure out
>where you got your drivers.  8-)

Most or all of the SCSI tape makers do not make *ANY* drivers and we are no 
exception. This is baecause we are standard via SCSI, and unlike other tape
manufacturers test our drives *CONSTANTLY* for compatibility with other
makers. The drivers are the providence of the software makers.

>Can you describe your setup in config.sys and offer any suggestions to
>those of us having a problem setting up a Wangtek 6130 on a Future
>Domain card?  TIA

Well, first note that boot back to DOS mode to perform backup. This is 
a personal decision. I don't trust the "locked file workaround" for os/2 just
yet (boy, bet I'll hear about that one :). Also, I am moving towards a 
literal backup system because of difficulties I have described here (a backup
that literally dumps all the sectors on the drive to tape including the 
partition sector).
The only tape software I have tried under os/2 2.0 is GNU TAR, and it is well
documented in the GTAK package on hobbes. It also says that an ADAPTEC 1540
is all that has been tested using the drivers :(, but I beleive that any
controller able to run an ASPI mode interface should work.

Here are the relivant sections of CONFIG.SYS:

   basedev=aha154x.add --> obtained from ADAPTEC, the ASPI for os/2 driver.
   basedve=scsitape.dmd tape$0 0 s2 --> comes with GTAR
   set tape=+++tape$0
   set tapemode=2 --> sets scsi interface to SCSI-II

I beleive that scsitape.dmd will operate atop any aspi driver, but I'm not
going to bet the farm on it. Since the full source of GTAR is avalible, it
should not be too hard to figgure out. Good luck !

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