SCO & tape drive bug

[Tony Holden]

I've got a problem that sounds fishy, maybe someone else has  heard of it.

Customer running 2.2.1 and has a Archive ctrl and Wangtek drive (60 meg) on
a 286 clone clone.

Has been running for 6 months with no problem.  Suddenly tape drive starts
to act up, tape streams to the end-of-tape without backing anything up. Ok
so the tape system is acting up, back to the distributor.  The distributor
can't find a thing wrong with it.

A conversation with SCO sez "upgrade to 2.2.3".  Ok, upgrade.  Install the
update disks and the machine is dead.  At the boot prompt it auto boots and
then resets the system.

Ok, bad update disks.  Let's just install the full system.  Installed and
the same thing happens, reboots the system.  Sh*t, can't find a 2.2.1 disk
to get them back and running.  Whew, found a boot 2.2.1 boot disk.  Now we
have a hybrid system but at least it's running for now.

Any clues on why a running tape system suddenly stops working (software?)
Any clues on why 2.2.3 causes a machine to auto-boot and then reset?  BTW,
I used *MY* copy of 2.2.3 to be sure that it wasn't a bad batch of disks.

By the time I finished with this mess it was 4am.  This should have been a
2hr job at the most.   HELP!



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