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- From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Colorado Systems - Conversation
- Message-ID: <9212135421@drktowr.chi.il.us>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 12:05:03 GMT
- References: <1992Dec7.200530.4245@esseye.si.com>
- Organization: DarkTower Software
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- David Scholten (scholten@esseye.si.com) wrote:
- :
- : Well, I called Colorado systems today, and they made it clear that
- : they would not support Coherent. However, if somebody else wrote
- : the device drivers, they might consider becoming the maintainers.
-
- I motion we take our business somewhere else. If they are so dead set
- against supporting our product, why should we bend over backwards to
- support theirs? If they had said, "there isn't enough of a user base
- for us to commit R&D and funding to developing one, maybe in a year or
- two" that would still be jerky (IMHO), but at least tactful.
-
- : He did point out that all of the TAPE Drives are compatable with each
- : other. And that the Specs needed from the QIC committe are:
- :
- : QIC-40 (JUMBO 120 DRIVES)
- : QIC-80 (JUMBO 250 DRIVES)
- : QIC-117 (COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL)
- :
- : The phone number for the committee is (805)963-3853
- :
-
- I'd be willing to try, but I don't own a tape drive. I am going to purchase
- one (or 2 -- OS/2 has a 120meg drive, and I don't want to back that
- up on floppy!). I've written a SCSI driver for microchannel before, and
- after that disaster (you should see what MCA is like -- it's great for
- everyone except the programmer) this shouldn't be too bad. I can look
- at the Linux drivers for the particulars since they also support non-SCSI
- QIC format.
-
- Can anyone recommend a tape drive besides colorado? If I buy one, I'll
- start playing with it.
-
- : Anybody willing to give this a try? Or should we try and convince
- : Colorado systems to change their mind?
-
- If they have a lousy attitude, I'd say let's move on.
-
- -Louis
-
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