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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: status of QIC-80 driver on tsx-11.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.055410.27559@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CANADA
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 05:54:10 GMT
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- Does anyone know anything about the status of the QIC-80 driver on
- tsx-11.mit.edu? I am one of the many with an IDE based computer,
- and I would like to find a way of adding a backup. The Colorado
- types seem plentiful (but we have one at work, and it doesn't work
- under either DELL or ISC unix, at least not in multiuser mode).
-
- The QIC code on tsx doesn't seem to have anything to do with Linux,
- so I take it someone just plunked it in there for future reference?
- Am I wrong? Is someone looking at this? I heard mumblings months
- ago about timing problems being insurmountable on a multitasking
- machine. Is this correct?
-
- By the same token, finding a CDROM that works with an IDE based PC
- would be great (could a CDROM be another read-only IDE drive,
- theoretically?). Having to plunk in a SCSI board seems futile,
- and adds to the cost and complexity of setting it up. I am
- unenlightened in this area. Anyone who would care to talk about
- it to me, please drop me a line. My main rational is establishing
- how feasible or when a CDROM of SLS would be practical/affordable
- for most of us. I certainly am not willing to retool my entire
- system just to have it, but I would consider spending $300-$400.
- Also, SCSI seems to be a bit problematic.
-
- Also, is an EXT FS feasible for a CDROM? Or are we doomed to using
- the ISO formats?
-
- Peter
- pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
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