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Wangtek QIC info needed

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From: Volkmar Grote
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 21:59
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I recently aquired a Wangtek qic streamer (5125EN) together with
a controller card from Wangtek (PC36, doing QIC-02, I think).
As I don't like SYTOS, I want to write a device driver for
MSDOS, or, alternatively, a set of library routines; in the end, I
want to use tar or cpio, and be able to read and write tapes as I
do under UNIX (well, kind of).
I got the driver from BSDI's 386BSD, and learned a lot about the io-interface,
but after reading the first block, everything stops and waits for something
to happen (I have an interrupt service routine and a time out routine).
Somehow, I didn't put the protocol right.
What I would like to have, is a description of the commands and statuses
(I have some) and a short description of the protocol (when do I start the DMA,
when does the controller issue an interrupt, what do I do then ...).

Please reply by email, because I'll work at our customer's site for some
time. I will happily provide you with the driver / lib, if I get it to work.

Thanks a lot
	Volkmar (Volkmar.Grote@Stollmann.DE)

P.S.: FTP is of little help, we have no internet access :-(
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Subject: Wangtek QIC info needed
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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 21:59:48 GMT
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Summary: Need decription of Wangtek QIC interface
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