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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Tape drive choices for 386BSD?
Message-ID: <1992Aug30.211531.22956@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 92 21:15:31 GMT
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In article <1992Aug30.081319.7539@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) writes:
>I'd rather buy a simple QIC-80 such as a Colorado 250 for about
>$250. Is someone working on support for drives of this type?
Timing is critical on QIC-80 and QIC-40 drives. I don't know if
anyone has gone in and added sufficient granularity to the scheduler and/or
interrupt code to fix this, but I seriously doubt it.
There are several SCSI-based drives that have been tested and seem
to work on 386BSD... they are listed in a posting prior to this one about
the mudular SCSI system (not posted by me).
I don't know what the status is on Computone/Archive drives which
come with their own controller (Anyone have one of these working?), but I
syspect you won't be able to get away very cheaply in any case unless you
are using SCSI.
Terry Lambert
terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.
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