It sure took me long enough, but I had an adventure installing the Wangtek 120MB drive in my 3B2 yesterday.
I booted the system down, took the cover off, removed the drive tower, removed the original Wangtek tape drive, and bolted the new one in. I reinstalled the tower, buttoned the system up, and rebooted.
Nothing. Steady yellow light on the front panel, meaning that the system was not making it to the boot sequence and was failing early in POST. The 3B2 has a long and complex POST, especially when you change hardware in the machine.
My setup did not include a terminal, so I was not looking at the console, and coudn't tell what was going on, so I hooked up a terminal, but couldn't get it to work. The 3B2 has an odd RJ45 serial connection that has a non-standard cable. I have a lot of RJ45 lying around and forgot whach one was the single 3B2 console cable I've got. I also forgot which of the many gender benders and such I have lying around was the null modem one. It took me quite a while to find the right combination, hook it all up, and fire up a VT520 terminal.
On boot, the console simply said System Error, Consult Manual, or something very close to that.
Uh oh!
So, I once again took the beast apart and removed the drive tower and the tape drive, then examined the two drives side by side, and all became clear: the SCSI id was incorrectly set. While there seems to be no surviving documentation for this Wangtek drive on the net, I know a SCSI header when I see one.
After I got the thing set properly and the system once again buttoned up, the 3B2 booted fine!
Now my problem is that the mechanism does not work. When I insert a tape into the drive, it refuses to lock in. I think there is a bad spring or something. I'll have to once again remove the drive and compare the two. This is odd, since everything worked fine when I took delivery of the drive. Hopefully it's something relatively simple that I can fix. Otherwise it's back to the shop (a different shop) with it.
More as I get it!
