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- From: mchapman@butes.eis (Michael Chapman Tel. 07121/35-1662)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: [Q] Non SCSI CDROM and tape drives
- Keywords: Hardware, CDROM, Tape drives, interfaces
- Message-ID: <2232@osiris.bosch.de>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 11:22:44 GMT
- Sender: news@rt.bosch.de
- Reply-To: mchapman@eis.k8.rt.bosch.de
- Organization: Robert Bosch GmbH., Reutlingen, Germany.
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- As far as I can make out, linux only supports SCSI CDROM drives.
- Is this right?
- Here in Germany at the moment you can get a Mitsumi CDROM drive with
- AT bus interface for about DM 375 whereas anything with a SCSI interface
- costs DM 900+. Any chances of a linux driver for this thing?
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- What I would like to do is to be able to install linux directly from
- a CD. Is there any distribution (ideally CDROM and one floppy) which
- would allow me to do this? This would be really neat for people without
- FTP access who want to install the whole lot (linux, X, TeX etc).
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- Also tape drives. What support is in linux for QIC40/80 tape drives
- which are not SCSI? I read something about a QUIC-02 interface but I don't
- think that is the same as the floppy interface (QIC-36 ??) which
- is how the cheapo Colorado Jumbo drives are wired up. These are real
- cheap here at the moment (about DM 400) whereas anything with SCSI
- is again about DM 1000.
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- Any info or recomendations welcomed!
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- Mike Chapman
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