home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!xenitec!news
- From: lee@dlpco.dlpco.COM (Lee Penn )
- Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
- Subject: Re: Tape drive on floppy controller, no fun
- Message-ID: <9212231532.aa13151@dlpco.dlpco.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:27:41 GMT
- Sender: news@xenitec.on.ca (xenitec.on.ca News Administrator)
- Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
- Lines: 54
- Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
- Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
- Precedence: bulk
-
- >From uunet.uucp!xenitec.on.ca!news Tue Dec 22 19:16:10 1992
- >To: xenitec.on.ca!distribution@uunet
- >Path: xenitec!olivea!uunet!shady!kevin
- >From: Kevin Smith <xenitec.on.ca!uunet!shady!kevin@uunet>
- >Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
- >Subject: Re: Tape drive on floppy controller, no fun for crowbar+restore
- >Message-Id: <65@shady.UUCP>
- >Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:45:00 -0500
- >References: <1992Dec16.212627.27201@xenitec.on.ca> <Z2J1VB2w165w@zswamp.UUCP>
- >Organization: ShadeTree Software, Inc.
-
- >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.
- >--
- > | Email - !shady!kevin uunet!shady!kevin kevin%shady@uunet.uu.net
- >Kevin Smith | Voice - (908) 874-7980
- > | Mail - ShadeTree Software, Inc., 192 Capricorn Dr. #10,
- > | Somerville, NJ 08876
-
-
- DLP Votes DOWN THUMBS on Colorado J-Tape drives. They should be
- avoided at all costs. We have several customers who have junked
- these drives. One just spent 2 solid weeks working with the
- "experts" at Colorado. He sometimes could write to the tape,
- sometimes not, sometimes even read the tape he wrote to most of
- the time not.
-
- Plus, the problem of not being able to boot from a floppy and
- access the device.
-
- I DON'T think they work well at all and would never recommend
- them.
- ================================================================================
- Lee Penn, DLP Technologies, Inc. Voice: 513 232-7791
- SCO Advanced Product Center FAX: (513) 232-7801
- 7444 Jager Ct.
- Cincinnati, OH 45230-4344 email: lee@dlpco.COM
-