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- From: kevin@shady.UUCP (Kevin Smith)
- Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
- Subject: Re: Tape drive on floppy controller, no fun for crowbar+restore
- Message-ID: <65@shady.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:45:00 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.212627.27201@xenitec.on.ca> <Z2J1VB2w165w@zswamp.UUCP>
- Organization: ShadeTree Software, Inc.
- Lines: 24
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- In article <Z2J1VB2w165w@zswamp.UUCP> geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
- :>edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:
- :>
- :>> Next time you'll likely buy a different tape drive.
- :>
- :> I think that it's worth emphasizing this: the Jumbo tape drives from
- :>Colorado Memory Systems work well, provided that you buy the separate
- :>controller card (to get away from the floppy controller conflict, as you
- :>mentioned in your article), the UNIX software, etc... and, by the time you've
- :>bought all of the pieces, you've spent a significant fraction of the money it
- :>would have cost to put in a QIC-02 tape drive of higher capacity... and Jumbo
- :>tapes need to be preformatted (a slow process not shared by QIC-02 tapes)!
- :>
- :> It may cost you a few more bucks, but in this case it's worth sticking to
- :>the old standard ways.
-
- One of my customers has a colorado drive with the separate controller,
- under xenix, and we still couldn't get it to work from a floppy boot (even
- with help from their tech support). Finally punted the drive.
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