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- From: pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard )
- Subject: Re: Colorado Tape drive support?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.044011.11416@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1gfvm6INNlr3@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:40:11 GMT
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- ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) writes:
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- >Is there anyone working on support for Colorado QIC tape drives? I've
- >got one of these, and I'd really like to make my backups a bit simpler.
- >Failing that, does anyone know where to get the technical information to
- >*gasp* *horror* write a driver myself?
-
- Don't forget that there are TWO interface choices for these, the floppy
- interface and the parallel interface. The driver code would most definitely
- be different. I'm guessing the parallel code would be simpler if you don't
- need to also use the parallel port for a printer (but where else would it go).
-
- I assume we can treat these devices as byte stream from the application level
- and use tar (or cpio or whatever) and as block.
-
- I'm interested in the technical device info if you get it.
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