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- From: teague@a.cs.okstate.edu (Keith Teague)
- Subject: Re: Which Tape Drive for OS/2?
- References: <1992Dec17.160508.221@ornl.gov>
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.231529.23670@a.cs.okstate.edu>
- Organization: Oklahoma State University
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 23:15:29 GMT
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- From article <1992Dec17.160508.221@ornl.gov>, by rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C):
- > In article <1gj1ujINN19p@hpscit.sc.hp.com> you write:
- >>I use an HP 120MB tape controlled through the floppy drive. It is really
- >>an Irwin drive. I have Irwin's Eztape for PM. It supports various
- >>other tape drives with different controllers. I'm very pleased with
- >>Eztape for PM. You would probably want to checkout your options on
- >>which hardware to choose among those supported by it. There is probably
- >>a major price/performance tradeoff. My 120MB drive is rather out-dated.
- >
- > Do you have a list of the other drives supported? I have an EVEREX 120M
- > drive that doesn't seem to be popular but I would really like to use it!
- >
- > There would seem to be some commonality in the implementation of the
- > floppy tape hack.
- >
- >
- Does anybody have any further info on getting the Irwin Accutrac drive and
- EZtape for PM to work with the latest (GA+CSD) release of OS/2. It fails
- to operate correctly for me using either the latest beta (11/92 PDK) and
- the GA+CSD release of OS/2. A call to Irwin just confirmed that they
- were aware of the problems but that they had no idea when/if there would
- be a fix available - they don't even understand the problem yet, they
- told me! By the way, I am using the 4100c interface board, not the
- floppy controller to run the drive.
-
- Does any one know of other software that will work with the Irwin
- Accutrac drives? Maybe that is an option.
-
- Keith Teague
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