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- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: QIC/Travan Tape Drivers?
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 01:52:54 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Benjamin Kenobi (fkrj@crux4.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:
-
- : I'm looking at tape backup systems. Are there any drivers for the tape
- : drives that plug into the parallel port or an IDE floppy port? There seems
- : to be a lot of these drives cheaply available right now.
-
-
- No, they don't work. The pc-parallel port and the amiga parallel port differ
- too much. The pc-port has some free wires which are used by those cheap
- streamers. The amiga has those wires in use for something else.
-
- Or at least that's what I vaguely remember....
- No chance in getting them to work.
-
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
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