Re: Problem connecting Wangtek 5125ES tape drive to Apple HS SCSI card

[jeffr@bnr.ca (Jeffrey Robertson)]

In article <3arlsp$fv2@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Karen Jen Hu <kjh52156@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>I just received a Wangtek 5125ES SCSI tape drive [...]
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>
>Don't waste your time with any kind of GSTape program or anything.
>The 5125ES is NOT SCSCI (so Im told by WangTek) It's what's called
>a Quick-02 (the pronouced this as Quick-Oh-Two).  I have the exact
>same drive, WangTek 5125ES.  I know it's recognized as a SCSI device,
>but the Tech Support guy at WangTek assures me it cannot be controlled
>by SCSI controllers.

Uhm, I think (hope!) this is wrong.  The previous owner of this
drive controlled it quite successfully off a RamFast SCSI card, and
we seem to have others in this newsgroup who've also used the 5125ES
as a SCSI device.  I really don't know what the Wangtek guy is
talking about.  I'll give you a more definitive statement once I've
got it running myself.

> I even downloaded the GSTapeDemo, and that didn't work.
> [...] 120 Meg drives.

I think someone else mentioned the demo was a little less stable than
the real thing.  And isn't it a 125 MB drive?
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