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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!news.dell.com!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: floppy tape driver Date: 14 Sep 1993 22:10:51 -0500 Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX Lines: 27 Message-ID: <276149$h5h@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <CDDBAM.E66@csi.compuserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <CDDBAM.E66@csi.compuserve.com> mfoley@csi.compuserve.com (M Foley) writes: >Does anybody know if the floppy/tape driver source uploaded by Steve >Gerakines on (or about) Sept 4 for 386bsd will work with the Colorado >Jumbo tape drives? This software is new to me and the posted articles >did not mention any specific hardware. I have a Colorado 120 installed >in another machine and am reluctant to rip it out and hook to to bsd >if we're not talking the same class of animal. I have a hardware >compression controller card for this drive. If this driver works >for Colorado, should the controller card be used or omitted? > There is a special driver for that controller, I think. If it is going to work with the compressing controller, it will probably look like one of the wt driver devices. The QIC-40 stuff would probably work for your drive, but you will need to connect it to your floppy controller, which puts your tape capacity at 40/60/80 megabytes instead of the higher capacity you are used to. >Please post responses to this news group as the mail address is >unreliable. Thanks. -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX