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From: colin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning)
Subject: Re: Repost: QIC tape drivers
Message-ID: <colin.720251326@marsh>
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Organization: Curtin University of Technology
References: <1992Oct27.155143.1@vax.sonoma.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 05:48:46 GMT
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levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
>This is a repost about Tape Drive compatibility.
>I have a Colorado DJ-10 tape drive and would like to know if there is anyone
>else out there with one? The last time I posted this message, I got 2
>reponses. I think that is ridiculous, considering the fact that they sold
>millions of units..
I have the Colorado 120 drive
>My next question is are there drivers for this tape drive either on 386BSD or
>LINUX? I need to get a unix system going with the tape backup system as soon
>as possible for school to learn about it.
>My third question is, does anyone own the UNIX drivers that COLORADO provides
>(I think it is for $99) and if you do, is the source code available for it so
>it could be ported? (I would obviously purchase it if it has source, but if
>not, it would not be useful to me)
>My final question is, What would be required to rebuild the kernal to
>accomodate this tape drive? I have limited hard disk space, and because of
>this, I cannot get anything past the bin distribution to install (I only have
>85MB).
My machine has two 40Meg drives in it. I have compiled the kernel on this
system. I copy the bin01 and src01 distribution onto my 40Meg /usr/src
partition. I then extract the the binary dist and remove bin01.*. I then
extract the source distribution using the following script:
foreach f ( /usr/src/src01.* )
cat $f
rm $f
end
I invoke the script from / like so:
myinstall | uncompress | cpio -idalmu
I have to suspend (^Z) the process every now and then and compress the
extracted files. (I have a script that recursively compresses a directory tree)
This involves some fiddling while extracting, but once that is done I end up
with about 17% of my 40Meg disk used. This leaves ample room to uncompress
the /usr/src/sys386bsd tree and compile the kernel. When I start earning money
I am going to buy myself a larger drive (4-500 Meg?)
>Please respond to me at rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com, or if you are on a more
>primitive mailer: moon.nbn.com!rcisnet2!root. I don't get to check netnews
>that often, and when I do there are like 600 new messages on this group.
>Thanks a million!
>--
>Eric Levinson
>rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP)
>levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax
>I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696
--
Colin [colin@cs.curtin.edu.au]
"Knowledge is not knowing all the answers, but knowing where to find them."
-anon.