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- From: WARWICKR@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU (Richard Warwick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Colorado Systems - Conversation
- Message-ID: <3C69263E40C14B41@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 19:30:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
- Lines: 57
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- DATE SENT: 14-DEC-1992 13:20:32
- >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.
-
- Unfortunately, for those of us who already own colorado drives, moving on
- is not an economically viable alternative. While I don't have the expertise
- to do it, I would encourage the development of QIC-80 support. I noticed
- on the Colorado BBS, documents which purported to give the specs for
- software developers. I am under the impression (please correct me if
- I'm incorrect) that writing a qic-80 driver could be somewhat generic and
- support more than one manufacturer fairly easily. If there is interest,
- I could get those documents and post them.
-
- R.
-
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