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From: fr@icdi10.uucp (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Compaq Tape Drive under Bell Tech Unix
Summary: the solution is obvious
Keywords: Compaq Bell-Tech UNIX
Message-ID: <7115@icdi10.uucp>
Date: 8 Dec 88 03:43:23 GMT
References: <521@penguin.UUCP>
Organization: CompuData, Inc., Phila. Pa.
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In article <521@penguin.UUCP>, jac@penguin.UUCP (James Carter) writes:
< I am trying to bring up Locus' MERGE 386 with Bell Tech UNIX on a Compaq
< 386 Deskpro (16mhz) and am doing pretty good except for the gottcha....
< 
< There seems to be no tape driver in Bell Techs Unix for the internal 40mb
< Compaq Tape Drive. It appears to be driven off of the floppy disk controller
< board with some rather unusual method of motor/head step control.

< trying to fix it with a DOS patch for the last 3 months...it doesn't work
< yet!
< James A. (JC) Carter                          |
< Penguin Business Systems, Inc.                        |   When in doubt..
< UUCP:  ..!okstate!romed!penguin!jac           |       SWAP it out..

When something doesn't work for three months it is time to SWAP it out.
Compaq and SCO work together. What is it $795 retail?  As a reseller much
less.

How much pain do you need to make a buck?
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