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From: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Subject: Detailed specs for CMS Jumbo 1400==QIC 3020 tape type 6 needed
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:02:13 GMT
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I'm trying to get a CMS Jumbo 1400 drive which I recently purchased
for my GW2000 486 working under FreeBSD (it works fine under MS DOS).
To do this I need detailed specs of the tape format. I know these are
written on the tape itself, but the FreeBSD driver is too lame to read
them from there. The information I need is:
Number of segments per track, Number of blocks per track, Number of
Floppy disk tracks, Number of Floppy disk sectors/side.
The drive takes a 400 ft. tape purporting to hold 675MB uncompressed,
and I already know it has 40 tracks, but the rest I don't know . . ..
Thanks for any help,
ht
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Henry S. Thompson, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440
Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
URL: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ht/