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- From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter)
- Subject: Re: Wangtek TAPE hangs on IBMPC clone
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.025820.12087@mks.com>
- Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
- References: <1992Nov16.221552.5218@cognos.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:58:20 GMT
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- dbullis@cognos.com (Dave Bullis) writes:
- >I've picked up a Wangtek tape drive and controller and am having some
- >problems. I can write a few records (from 1 to 20) onto the tape but
- >then the tape hangs.
- >
- >The controller says: ASSY 30850-008 Rev F3
- >The drive says: Wangtek 5099EN24, ASSY NO ???32-010-RevC
-
- I have similar hardware, and for a while I have a similar problem.
- Then I slowed my motherboard speed down to CLK/4 (on my CMOS setup screen)
- where CLK=25 MHz. So you might just be running the I/O bus on your motherboard
- too fast.
-
- fred
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