🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello again -- still need help :-(

I have an Adaptec 1542B that works fine with a Maxtor hard disk and NEC
CD-ROM. But I can't get the "gtak201" version of gnu tar to work with my
Sankyo CP-150SE tape drive [a clone of wang 5150SE maybe?].

No matter what I try I get the message

	"Fatal SCSI error: Cannot access device TAPE$2, return code 31"

when I try to use the "tape ret" command.

I have tried disabling the CD-ROM in my config.sys.

I have tried both the GA-SP and 2.1 beta.

On the advice of someone on the net, I have added ASPI support, so that the
relevant entries in my config.sys are [these are at the end]:

	BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD
	SET TAPE=+++TAPE$2
	SET TAPEMODE=0
	BASEDEV=SCSITAPE.DMD TAPE$2 A0 2 S0

Has anyone gotten a similar configration to work? How about a WangDat with
gtak and Adaptec 1542B and GA+SP or 2.1 Beta?

Any differences in your config.sys? Any other tape drives that are
inexpensive and available in the U.S. that work?

Any other HPFS-aware backup software that works with my hardware?

Any OS/2 or DOS-based diagnostic programs that might be useful in
probing the origin of my problems?

Advice gratefully accepted.


orville

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