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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!ihz.compuserve.com!mfoley From: mfoley@csi.compuserve.com (M Foley) Subject: Re: floppy tape driver Message-ID: <CDF0r8.2qF@csi.compuserve.com> Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 21:52:17 GMT Lines: 23 In article <276149$h5h@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> Dave Burgess writes: >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? ... >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. I have no problem omitting the compression card and hooking the drive directly to my floppy controller. Do I understand correctly that this setup will work, or do I need a 'special driver' as mentioned in your first paragraph? Thanks again - mfoley