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- From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
- Subject: Re: Wangtek TAPE hangs on IBMPC clone
- Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:24:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.142403.11264@zeos.com>
- References: <1992Nov16.221552.5218@cognos.com> <1992Nov18.025820.12087@mks.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.025820.12087@mks.com> fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) writes:
- >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.
-
- If you can change the DMA=3, you should see a difference with the WangTek.
- This was something that I noticed on the PC-02 Adapter for the WangTek 5150.
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