HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sm@g2.ph.man.ac.uk (Steve Mowbray)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: EOT at BOT? (Sun,tar,8mm or 1/2")
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:28:13 GMT
Reply-To: sm@g2.ph.man.ac.uk
Organization: University of Manchester, UK

In article 28734@morrow.stanford.edu, caroline@topaz.Stanford.EDU (Caroline Lambert) writes:
>I am trying to read some data that was written by a Sun on
>an Exabyte 8500 using tar (or so I'm told). We've also tried
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>I have only tried experimenting with reading these tapes on
>a DECstation with an Exabyte 8200. 
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Presumably the tape was written in 8500 (high density) mode, which you can't
read on an 8200. Find an 8500 somewhere.

---
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From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Exabyte 8500C?
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:26:46 GMT
Reply-To: km@mathcs.emory.edu
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS

Does anyone know when the Exabyte 8500C is actually going to ship? Its been
along time since it was announced.

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From: jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: 1542B Synchronous/Asynchronous
Keywords: 1542B
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:53:22 GMT
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 US of A

i dont have 1640 docs, but the 1542b, jumper block, j5, pin 1(the leftmost)
is sync enable. default is removed, disabled.

on the 1542a, see jumper block j1, pin 1, same sense.

note sync enable is not a dictum to use it, just allow it if
the target agrees. 

jack...
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 Jack Craig      Microport SVR4      408-438-UNIX        uunet!mport.com!jack   
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: jeganath@leland.Stanford.EDU (Muthuveerappan Jeganathan)
Subject: Data Transfer Limit
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 20:06:45 GMT


Hi, here is a question for PC experts. I would like to find out what limits the 
data transfer rate from the PC RAM to a SCSI Hard Disk. Is it the PC/ISA bus, 
hard disk write time, or something else. What is a typical data transfer rate 
from RAM to disk for a 486 DX system. Thanks.

-- Muthu Jeganathan
From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Fuji 2624SA 520MB, 3.5" Disk Drive
Date: 17 Aug 92 12:18:50 GMT
Organization: MicroMuse Limited, London, England.

lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:

>I can recommend Trimm boxes if you can get them in the States. (I believe
>Trimm is a British company.)

Yes, they are in Nottingham. Wonderful bunch, we use their cabinets
exclusively. There is a particularly nice 5 1/4" x 2 cabinet, that is
the two drives next to each other, and is built *really* well...

Just my #0.02 worth.
-- 
Peter Galbavy
Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd
Phone: +44 71 352 7774		E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk
From: e4shwen@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (S.H. Wen)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Adaptec 1542B or NOT Adaptec 1542B,your opinion?
Date: 16 Aug 92 10:44:49 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Electronic Eng., University of Adelaide

I heard a lot of good and bad things about Adaptec 1542B controller,so shall I
get the 1542 or not. Need your suggestions.

Can someone out there tell me the actual fact. Does the 1542 bring you trouble
or happiness?

Thanks!!
From: jack@admin.mport.COM (Jack Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Can you query a SCSI tape about the block size of data on tape?
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:48:21 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 US of A

on svr4(and i bet there is a svr3 version) there is a tapecontrol utility.
this utility will both inquire and reset(via a mode select) the block
size. try to find your version of that utility.

jack...
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 Jack Craig      Microport SVR4      408-438-UNIX        uunet!mport.com!jack   
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 10:20:25 EDT
From: H. Choe <HXC6@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Why does 1542BK not include OS/2 2.0 software?

After learning about the benefit of buying AHA-1542B Kit (rather than the
board bundled with a hard disk), I bought the kit from a mail order co.
Three softwares are included, but ASW-1220/1420 software is for OS/2 1.3
version!   Does anybody have a version for 2.0?
           What would I lose if I do not have that software?
Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: SCSI tape driver source code examples sought.
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:45:55 GMT

Anyone have examples of SCSI tape device driver code for  
Unix bsd (Next) systems?
From: dv@welch.jhu.edu (Deepak Vaidya)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Adaptec 1542b cdrom support
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:38:40 GMT
Reply-To: dv@welch.jhu.edu
Organization: Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University

I just purchased a adaptec 1542b kit, and was wondering where I can get the cdrom
support drivers.  Does adaptec deal directly with end users.

Thank You

- Deepak Vaidya
dv@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu
[128.220.59.13]
From: lps@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Lawrence P. Schnitzer)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SCSI vs fast SCSI
Date: 19 Aug 92 17:22:40 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo / CEDAR Research Group
Originator: lps@fomalhaut.cs.buffalo.edu


FAST SCSI-2 has a maximum transfer rate of 10 MBytes/sec over the bus
as opposed to 5 MBytes/sec for SCSI.  Note that you'll never achieve
either of these rates - they're maximum rates.  Also, I don't think that 
there any drives that will give you 5 Mbytes/sec.  You may be able to 
get 5 or higher if you use multiple drives and the deselect/reselect 
feature.
From: jeffw@pyramid.com (Jeff Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: OS/2 Adaptec - Gtar Problems
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:58:36 GMT
Reply-To: jeffw@pyramid.com (Jeff Wallace)
Organization: Pyramid Technology, St. Louis, MO

(Pardon my double posting to comp.periphs.scsi, comp.os.os2)


Help,

Ok, I got the APSI Beta driver from Hobbes, and gtar also. My problem 
comes in when I attempt to boot OS2 2.0:


	Cannot attact to SCSIMGR$
	SYS1209: The drivce driver "c:\bin\aspitape.sys" was not installed


System Configuration
---------------------
OS/2 2.0
Adaptec 1542B

Installed beta APSI manager - OS2ASPI.DMD in C:\os2

CONFIG.SYS -		BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD
			DEVICE=C:\BIN\ASPITAPE.SYS TAPE$0 3 S1
			(Tandberg TDC3600 series tape, device id3)

AUTOEXEC.BAT -		SET TAPE=+++TAPE$3


	1) Do I need to replace aha154x.add with a new one? 
	2) Am I missing something somewhere?
	3) Does anyone else have this up and running (OS/2)
	4) HELP!!!!!!!


-jeffw
Please respond via jeffw@pyramid.com
-- 
Jeff Wallace ( jeffw@pyramid.com )
From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: SCSI-Centronics
Keywords: Always Trantor
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:58:57 GMT

I just got some info from Always Technology concerning their
Centronics<->SCSI products.  Although the hardware does what I want,
the software is infantile, and the company refuses to give any low
level programming info.  

Thus, I would like the address and number for Trantor, the other
player in the market.  Can anybody post it, or send it to me?  I think
my incoming mail is broken, so please post if mail bounces.  Thanks.

-- 
	 Frank E Perdicaro, Systems Admin, etc.		Xyvision Color Systems
      Legalize guns, drugs and cash...today.		101 Edgewater Drive
   inhouse: frank@marvin, x5572				Wakefield MA
outhouse: frank@contex.com, 617-245-4100x5572		018801285
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: rw3@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za (RW3 Studente)
Subject: Device drivers wanted
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:16:14 GMT
Organization: University of Pretoria, South Africa
Keywords: driver aspi

Could anybody PLEASE help me to get two device drivers needed 
to operate my system properly?

They are:
  ASPI2DOS.SYS
  ASPIDISK.SYS

thanx
From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Synchronous Negotiations with a twist -- the NEC CDR 74/84
Date: 19 Aug 92 02:46:03 GMT
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese) writes:
>Basically, the device does not correctly honor/reject the extended
>message for sync negotiating.  What I witnessed was simply (on another
>CD-ROM), the device accepted the message but did not ever respond again.
>And this device required a complete power cycle before it would ever
>respond to anything on the SCSI bus again.  This is in violation of the
>SCSI specification.

	Another twist is the Syquest 44 & 88 drives.  They indicate that they
accept it in the inquiry data (it's probably a good idea to never send a sync
negotiation msg until the driver checks that), and they do the negotiation,
but they then fail the command after the negotiation.  Since a failed command
may be a device reset, you must clear your sync data for that address and
renegotiate after a CHECK_CONDITION error (before fetching the data with
request sense!)  So you do so, and it returns CHECK_CONDITION again for the
request sense.  At this point our driver gives up on the unit.

	Fun, eh?

-- 
"Rev on the redline, you're on your own; seems like a lifetime, but soon it's
 gone..."  Foreigner
-
Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: harp@netcom.com (Gregory O. Harp)
Subject: Adjusting block size on Maxtor XT-8380S
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 01:57:12 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 


A while back I posted a request for info on changing the block size of
my Maxtor XT-8380S from 1K back to 512 bytes.  The responses I
received said to use the SCSICNTL program for MSDOS and the Adaptec
series of controllers.

Well, I tried SCSICNTL, and it doesn't allow me to modify the block
size.  According to the author, he has not yet added that feature
(apologies to him if that info is out of date -- he told me this about
a month ago).

So, I'm looking for other methods.  This drive is useless to me in its
current condition.  Please help me!

TIA,
  Greg
-- 
-----------------Greg-Harp----------------harp@netcom.com------------------
  Love me, love my ferrets.               "Break out of the mold before
  Or at least love my ferrets. ;)          the mold sets in" -- B52's
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:51:53 EDT
From: H. Choe <HXC6@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Questions on 1542B jumpers

I have had a lot of trouble installing 1542B with Micropolis 1624 SCSI II
hard drive.  I have several specific questions:
(1) I want to disable floppy jumper --- The AHA "installation guide" says
    "On 1542BS100 series, remove all jumpers from J8 block".  Does it
mean that I have to remove Pin 1 ONLY as long as my board is not ..S100
series?  On the other hand, the user's manual  p.2-13 (top line) says
"...all jumpers should be removed from this block" without mentioning
S100 series.  Which is correct?  [Anyway, what is S100 series?  I don't
think mine is this.]

(2) Synchronous negotiation disabled is default.  Is it O.K. with
micropolis 1624 drive?

(3) DMA transfer speed is set at 5.7MBytes/sec (default).  The Micropolis
data sheet says
       Data transfer rate at interface
            synchronous              Up to 10.0 Mbytes/sec
            asynchronous             Up to 4.0 Mbytes/sec
What is the appropriate setting for DMA transfer speed?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: hillm@inmos.co.uk (Mark Hill)
Subject: What's SCSICTRL.EXE & where can I find it?
Reply-To: hillm@inmos.co.uk (Mark Hill)
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:55:03 GMT

I've heard rumours that SCSICTRL.EXE is a R. Neese/Adaptec special, but
other than that...?

Mark

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
Subject: Roy Neese's software available for FTP
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon, US
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 04:50:57 GMT

We have arranged to maintain Roy Neese's excellent suite of tools for Adaptec
products as

    ftp.psg.com:~/pub/adaptec/*

The current versions were just received from Roy, and are as follows:

-rw-rw-r--   1        16754 Aug 20 19:24 00-Index
-rw-rw-r--   1         1158 Jan 30  1990 1540CPU.LIST.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1         1363 May 21  1990 1540DRV.LIST.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1        92083 Jan 26  1990 1540USR.MAN.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1         3031 Sep 16  1991 1540specs.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1        46204 Sep 12  1991 1542B.roms
-rw-rw-r--   1         3120 Sep 12  1991 1542B_jumpers
-rw-rw-r--   1         6959 Apr 20 07:30 154XP334.ZIP
-rw-rw-r--   1         7474 Feb 26 08:04 1740bios.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1       217247 Jan 17  1992 1740mcode.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1         1732 Oct 11  1989 @0F1F.ADF.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1        11190 Jan 25  1990 GETDEVS.EXE.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1        26244 Oct 11  1989 GRDRIVE.EXE.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1        26533 Oct 11  1989 GREAD.EXE.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1        26591 Oct 11  1989 GWRITE.EXE.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1         5781 Aug 15 13:54 OS2ASPI.ZIP
-rw-rw-r--   1        44421 Aug 15 13:49 OS2DRVS.ZIP
-rw-rw-r--   1        43042 Jul 25  1990 SCSI.EXE.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1        88675 Jun 12 14:44 SCSICNTL.EXE.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1        13212 Jan 21  1992 SCSICODE.EXE.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1         1160 Oct 11  1989 SCSIHA.SYS.Z
-rw-rw-r--   1         7633 Oct 11  1989 SETSCSI.EXE.Z

-- 
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From: boyd@cs.unca.edu (Mark Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SCSI drivers
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:17:17 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Adam Goldberg (adam@microware.com) writes:
 
>>The aha1522 is more similar to the ST-01/2 than the 1542.  The 1522 doesn't
>>have the on-board SCSI logic that the 1542 has...in fact, you could (or
>>should) call the 1542 a SCSI controller, and a 1522 a SCSI host adaptor.
>>The 1522 (to the best of my understanding) gives you access to the SCSI
>>bus that that's about it.  The 1542 does the disconnect/connect, some
>>arbitration etc for you.  Much better.
 
I have both the 1522 and the st02 adapters. The 1522, unlike the 154x
and like the st02, doesn't have an on borad processor. However it has
the same ( according to Roy Neese of Adaptec ) SCSI interface chip that
is in the 154x series. Its performance, using DOS, is similar to the
154x's performance. It is not 'more like the ST02 than the 1542' in 
either performance or functionality. Quite the opposite! 


	Mark
From: maurices@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Maurice Shihadi)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: EIGHT TRACK DIGITAL RECORDING
Date: 12 Aug 92 23:58:55 GMT
Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA

I know everyone is excited about the Alesis ADAT machine but I am
still waiting to see an eight track digital with a DAT format.  
I wish someone like TEAC would put together an eight track digital
DAT machine with eight inputs, eight outputs, two SCSI 
interfaces, an RS423/422 interface, a proprietary interface for 
additional eight track machines and an AES/EBU digital output
so that information can be ported to and from a direct to disc 
mastering computer (such as a NeXTstation) via SCSI interface or 
AES/EBU format (another DAT machine off site).  The ability to 
read and generate SMPTE and VITC time code withou killing a track 
would also be nice.  

Maybe TEAC and Phillips could collaborate to offer us such a
machine to take care of our Multimedia editing, mastering and
archiving needs with ONE machine;  but then again, it probably would
be more profitable to market three different machines at triple the
price.  What do you all think?  Am I indulging in fantasy or are
we really capeable of acknowledging more than one need and 
incorperating into one machine in a cost effective manner ($3k area)?

sincerely,

maurices@spock.DIS.CCCD.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: cscc13@judy.uh.edu (NAVEED IQBAL)
Subject: What are SCSI drives?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:17:00 GMT

Can someone tell me what SCSI drives are and what is the difference
between the SCSI drives and the other drives. I am looking for a 
paper that would explain it all.


Thanx
Naveed Iqbal
NIqbal@uh.edu


Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: kcwellsc@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Ken Wellsch)
Subject: Memorex disk drives?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 23:59:56 GMT

I know Memorex makes floppies but also hard-drives?  I am trying to figure
out the specs on two SMD drives labelled "Memorex 214" (all the other
labelling appears to have been removed?!).  They look a heck of a lot
like Fujitsu drives to me... (and I was able to successfully format them
with an old Sun3/160 as M2312's) anyone know a phone number for the "hard-
drive division" of Memorex?
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: mill7761@hgc.edu (jeff miller)
Subject: Re: Connecting IBM Printers to the Mac
Organization: The Hartford Graduate Center
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:05:48 GMT

In article <VsJ2oB3w165w@bluemoon.rn.com> zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com (Peter Bierman) writes:
>gt0299d@prism.gatech.EDU (Curtis N. Sayre) writes:
>
>> Being the local Mac Hack at Tech, a professor told me that he had an older
>> Epson printer that he wanted to hook up to the collective group's Mac.  He
>> asked me if it was possible, and I replied that yes, it was possible, but I 
>> wasn't sure how much of a hassle it was.  He asked me to look into it, which 
>> I am now doing.  I know that there is a device called the Grappler that is 
>> supposed to do this sort of thing.  Does it work?  How much hassle is it?
>> Does it come with printer drivers?  Any suggestions as to what might work?
>> Any and all suggestions are appreciated.
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> Curt
>> 
>> -- 
>> Curtis N. Sayre
>> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
>> uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt0299d
>> Internet: gt0299d@prism.gatech.edu
>
>Well, it is possible. You need to use a device like "NetSerial" to create 
>a serial port that all of the Macs can access. Then you need to buy the 
>grappler, which is just a parllell (sp) to serial converter. The printer's 
>connected to the Grapler, the Grapler's connected to the NetSerial, the 
>NetSerial's connected to the network. Wala!
>
>Or you could just go buy an ImageWriter with an AppleTalk Option Board. Or 
>you could get a LaserWriter. Or you could get a program called "PortShare" 
>which will share one Mac's serial port over a network.
>
>
>---
>The opinions I express are rarely my own, becuase my own are far too 
>outragous to post here.
>
>IntNet:zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com    FutureNet: #33@#10
>The Metropolis (614)-846-1911
>---

You don't want a Grappler.  That was for the Apple II to do fancier
printing.

You want a graflex.

It supports over 400 PC parallel printers.  One end of its cable
connects to the Mac's printer port.  The other end has a Centronics
printer connector.  You run Mac software which configures it for
the printer you have.  Then you select ImageWriter II in the Chooser.
Piece of cake and it works great.  I'm using with a Panasonic
KXP-1092 emulating an Epson FX.  Perfect.  I got it from MacWarehouse
for about $79.  It's made by

ICD, Inc.
Rockford, IL
(815)968-2228

That's all there is to it.

Jeff
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: 8mm video tape (EXABYTE)
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 23:22:28 GMT

In <12663@ztivax.UUCP> champ@ztivax.UUCP (Manfred Vorwalter) writes:
|  I'm trying to program an file-archive based on an 8mm video tape
| (EXABYTE). The actual system is a SUN IPX running SunOS 4.1.2. I have
| problems using the device driver.
| 
| SunOS reference manual says ( mtio(4), paragraph Write Operation ):
| 
| ... Writing is allowed on 1/4" tape at either the beginning of tape or
| after the last written file on the tape. Writing is not so restricted
| on 1/2" and 8mm video tapes. ...
| 
| In my opinion this sounds as if it is possible to override files
| anywhere on the tape. But trying to override files either at the end
| of the media or in between fails. So I found the same functionality as
| a 1/4" streamer tape provides.

The man page is wrong or at least misleading.  The drive itself does
not support this, so the driver clearly can not do so.  The 8200 allows
writing at BOT, EOD, or the BOT side of a long filemark (I think Sun
defaults to long FM's, but they may not).  The 8500 additionally allows
writing at the EOT side of filemark, but still doesn't allow arbitrary
overwrite.  There are a number of technical reasons for this, most of
them reasonably good (i.e., it isn't some arbitrary decision).
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: modem question
From: powalisz@nrlvx1.nrl.navy.mil
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:30:20 -0400
Organization: NRL SPACE SYSTEMS DIVISION

Question: Does anyone know the configuration of the DIP switches for a
          Concord Data Systems Model 224 (BIS/224/AD) modem? It has a Rev. 1.0
          ROM in it and dates back to 1984.

          Even just the address of Concord Data Systems would be enough so I
          can write for a manual...

Thanks, in advance.

Ron Powalisz
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: moore@oracorp.com (Sally Moore)
Subject: HELP with QMS-PS 800 Printer
Organization: ORA Corporation, Ithaca, New York
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:52:40 GMT


We just received a QMS-PS 800 Printer and are having difficulty getting
it to print from a SUN IPC.  The "test" page indicates that the printer
is RS232C Serial, Batch, 1200 baud, parity ignored.  The ACTIVE light
blinks once when a file is sent, and then sits quite inactive.  I
suspect a combination of hardware and software.  The RS232 cable being
used is currently successfully used on an NEC LC890.

QUESTIONS:
1) Is it possible to change the baud rate to 9600?
   I am unable to locate either the addendum page which the manual
   refers to, or any dip switches.  I notice a wheel near the RS232
   port which indicates a number from 0 through 7, but the manual
   doesn't reference this dial or its purpose.
2) If anyone successfully has this installed, what does your UNIX (BSD) 
   /etc/printcap file look like?

E-mail responses are fine.
Thanks in advance.

Sally Moore

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