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Article #20052Wangtek QIC info needed
From: Volkmar Grote
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 21:59
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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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!news.Hamburg.Germany.EU.net!stoll!sai1!vg From: Volkmar.Grote@Stollmann.DE (Volkmar Grote) Subject: Wangtek QIC info needed Message-ID: <0n2rc4b@Stollmann.DE> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 21:59:48 GMT Organization: Stollmann GmbH, D-2000 Hamburg 50, Germany Nntp-Posting-Host: sai1 Summary: Need decription of Wangtek QIC interface Keywords: wangtek qic tape msdos Originator: vg@sai1 Sender: news@Stollmann.DE (News daemon) Lines: 22