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- From: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Writing a driver for QIC-40, floppy controller tape drives
- Keywords: QIC-40 tape
- Message-ID: <151sfdINNreh@network.ucsd.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 22:14:05 GMT
- References: <greg.712272225@hibp1.ecse.rpi.edu>
- Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
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- In article <greg.712272225@hibp1.ecse.rpi.edu> greg@ecse.rpi.edu (Greg) writes:
- > Meanwhile, I wonder if anyone has any info on this type of drive. Right now,
-
- The documents describing the QIC interfaces are available from Quarter
- Inch Cartridge Standards, Inc, somewhere in the Bay Area on 805-963-3853.
-
- QIC-40 and QIC-80 apparently describe the tape formats. QIC-117 is the
- floppy-controller-style interface. Or so the people at Colorado Memory
- Systems say.
-
- I don't know how much they standards cost. Our library has copies, but
- they're checked out right now so I haven't seen them.
- - Brian
-