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- From: DIXONW@arizvm1.ccit.arizona.edu (Bill Dixon)
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- Subject: Re: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
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- Date: 25 Jul 92 21:57:51 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.213325.13830@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <t+jm74f.mmaston@netcom.com>
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- In article <t+jm74f.mmaston@netcom.com>
- mmaston@netcom.com (Michael Maston) writes:
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- >
- >
- >I was in the same basic situation you are talking about (both floppy
- >connectors used and only 2 supported by HD/FD interface). I bought the
- >Colorado Jumbo 120 and figured I would just live without one of my
- >floppy drives when i needed the tape drive. I found out, however, that
- >the tape drive comes with a cable that connect to your FD interface and
- >then connect to your existing FD cable. Of course, this provided cable also
- >has one more connector on it that goes to the tape unit itself. The tape
- >drive does not take the place of a floppy drive at all and therefore all
- >three devices are available at all times. They must bypass the firmware
- >that controls the floppies and directly manipulate the tape drive hardware
- >to achieve this. Of course there is nothing (!) on the box that would let
- >you know this ahead of time! I assume that most (if not all) other floppy
- >interface controlled tape units do the same thing.
-
- I, too, am considering purchase of a tape drive and had wondered how
- the floppy connections worked. Thanks for clearing this up. One further
- question, though: does this procedure degrade the performance of the
- floppy drives in any noticeable way?
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- William J. Dixon
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