Compaq Tape Drive under Bell Tech Unix

James Carter jac at penguin.UUCP
Sun Dec 11 01:26:32 AEST 1988


In article <7115 at icdi10.uucp>, fr at icdi10.uucp (Fred Rump from home) writes:
> In article <521 at penguin.UUCP>, jac at 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
> How much pain do you need to make a buck?
> -- 

I was hoping for a response that said I had overlooked something, but in it's
absence, this was also intended as a caution to future purchasers of the
MERGE/386 product. (Locus still runs full page ads on the back of Computer
Systems News that imply that they have it all figured out.)

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