WTB: Emulex MT-02 controller - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Apr 2008

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  Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:24:07 -0700
 From: Al Kossow  
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  Archives seem to be better than Wangtek. Lots of Sun
150 meg ones
 in peripheral boxes. Most of my DCxxx recovery lately has been done
 with Archive 20150's. Usual problem with the rubber rollers.  
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  Early Sun 2's used a QIC bridge board with an
Archive drive. This
 was early enough to have been SASI. May have been from Sysgen. The
 early Sun FE ref manual shows the board, but I don't have my copy
 anywhere handy. 
That was the MT-02 and QIC-36, not QIC-02 interface.

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  SMS 7300 and 7400 SCSI adapters supported QIC02 tape.

That's a thought.  My experience with the OMTI/SMS adapters have 
mixed results.  Mostly, the command set they support does not include 
the IDENTIFY command, which leads to all sorts of problems if your 
software or SCSI controller locates peripherals in this manner.

A Tandberg 4220 looks like a pretty good bet for a "read 
anything/write some" drive.

Cheers,
Chuck