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- From: katuulos@polaris.utu.fi (Kalle T. Tuulos)
- Subject: Re: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.000434.15991@polaris.utu.fi>
- Organization: University of Turku, Finland
- References: <1992Jul24.213325.13830@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 00:04:34 GMT
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- jwang@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Jane Wang) writes:
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- >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
-
- I've been using a Colorado 120mb drive for half year, first in 386/25
- machine and then in 486/50. I have 2 floppy drives already, and the tape
- drive connects parallel to them. If you know anything about signals on
- the cable, you can simply buy a card-edge connector which suits on
- Colorado tape drive and push it onto your floppy cable. The connector
- costs about $2 . But if you don't know exactly what to do, please ask
- for futher advice.
- However, if you're going to use that tape drive heavy, don't buy Colorado.
- It seems to be quite old-fashioned with it's technics and I don't believe
- it will last long in heavy use. (I can't explain why, my vocabulary is not
- big enough...)
-
- >Tong Gao
- >tgao@cad.cs.uiuc.edu
-
- --
- Kalle T. Tuulos katuulos@utu.fi
-