[geeks] More Wangtek help

[Shannon]

On 09-Feb-2011 08:39, Tom Manos wrote:
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> Jochen said:
> For things like this I use maketape.c as found here:
> ftp://ftp.teilam.gr/pub/UnixArchive/PDP-11/Distributions/ucb/2.11BSD/
> See the end of the HOWTO file for usage instructions.
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> 
> Jochen,
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, but it solves a different problem than the one I
> have. In my case, the SCSI tape driver does not know enough about my drive
> to properly stream it, so I was thinking about modifying the st
> configuration and building a new kernel.

That is certainly possible.

However, it can also mean the computer or even the SCSI card is too slow
for the drive.

Cheap PC and SCSI card might do it for you.  I used those really cheap
Symbios SCSI cards with a wide->narrow converter to read QIC drives on
Linux and it worked well.