27 Nov
2008
27 Nov
'08
1:15 p.m.
Since we've broached the topic of bridges, does anyone have a Pertec-
to-SCSI bridge that they'd like to sell? I understand that these
could be found in some old Overland drives...
Cheers,
Chuck
2:13 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Since we've broached the topic of bridges, does
anyone have a Pertec-
to-SCSI bridge that they'd like to sell? I understand that these
could be found in some old Overland drives...
As in you have a Pertec interface tape drive you'll like to interface
to a SCSI host adapter?
I have a couple Chi / Computer Logics PCTD16 ISA bus adapters which I
occasionally use with a couple of different Pertec interface tape
drives and they work well for me. The PC using them can read and
write tapes way faster than the 11/73 with a Q-Bus Pertec controller
and the same tape drives. I wrote some simple real mode DOS utilities
to read and write .TAP / .TPC files using the PCTD16 with the Chi TSR
interface software. The last PCTD16 I got off of eBay for something
like $10 but without cables which would take some effort to build and
probably cost more than I paid for the board.
Don't you also have a PCTD16? Have you been unsuccessful in getting
it to work for you with your tape drives?
-Glen
3:55 p.m.
On 27 Nov 2008 at 14:13, Glen Slick wrote:
Don't you also have a PCTD16? Have you been
unsuccessful in getting
it to work for you with your tape drives?
Yup, I've got one--am running it from a PII 233MHz box. It works
okay, but there's no software support for anything but DOS. I'd like
to run my Fujitsu drive on a *nix box--and SCSI seems to be the way
to go.
Does that make sense?
Cheers,
Chuck
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