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From: tim@cithep.UucP (Tim Smith )
Newsgroups: net.periphs
Subject: Re: Suggestions for 9-track tape drives wanted.
Message-ID: <134@cithep.UucP>
Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 22:37:54 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 22:37:54 1985
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Keywords: multibus drivers controllers

>>  We (the software group) are looking for suggestions for:
>>	* Multibus controllers for 9-track tape drives
>
> Ciprico makes these.  Nice and fast too.

Yeah, the tape controllers are nice.  But if you want to use both the Ciprico
Tapemaster and the Ciprico Rimfire-50 disk controller, make sure that they have
fixed the problems with using a Rimfire-50 with a Tapemaster.  Unless you are
very careful about bus lock, and about transfer sizes, you either get DMA
overruns from the tape, or the Rimfire will reset itself, which our driver
was not at all happy about!

Even if they haven't fixed these problems, they are still worth serious
consideration, since you can program around these problems easily ( the hard
part was finding out was wrong ), and in all other respects, they seem 
pretty good.
-- 
					Tim Smith
					ihnp4!cithep!tim