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- From: slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley)
- Subject: Re: status of QIC-80 driver on tsx-11.
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- References: <1992Dec13.055410.27559@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:57:04 GMT
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- Peter MacDonald (pmacdona@sanjuan) wrote:
- : 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).
- :
- I am using a Colorado DJ20 under ESIX SVR4 without any real problems.
- I had to buy the drivers for it separately but they work fine, although
- the lack of information about them means that I haven't figured out
- how to eg append to a tape.
-
- : 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?
- :
- Obviously not. The Colorado drivers claim to support SVR[34] and SCO.
-
- I am not a linux user so I have no idea whether the drivers would be
- likely to work on linux.
-
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