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- From: jwang@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Jane Wang)
- Subject: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.213325.13830@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:33:25 GMT
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- Hello, I am looking for a reliable yet not expensive tape drive for my
- Gateway 2000 486/33ISA pc. Right now I have two floppy drives in the system,
- and the control card can only control two floppy disks. Somebody told me that
- I can connect a Colorado 120mb internal tape drive onto the floppy cable
- without an extra controller for it. So I checked the cable. There
- are two plugs from the cable already plugged into the floppy drives, and
- there are two unused plugs on the cable. But it seems like that the plugs
- can only accept pins, not the edge of a printed circuit board. So am I missing
- something here? Or does the Colorado tape drive also come with pin plug?
- Do anyone out there have any good or bad experience with Colorado drive?
- Any advice is deeply appreciated.
-
- Tong Gao
- tgao@cad.cs.uiuc.edu
-