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- From: cummings@tiger1.prime.com (Kevin J. Cummings)
- Subject: Re: QIC 40 / QIC 80 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.134617@tiger1.prime.com>
- Keywords: streamer, linux, wanted
- Sender: usenet@primerd.prime.com (Usenet)
- Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.
- References: <184jgbINN4o6@iraul1.ira.uka.de> <1992Sep3.120139.24843@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <1992Sep3.130230.4422@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> <1992Sep3.141525.9011@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:46:17 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Sep3.141525.9011@ncsu.edu>, linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep3.130230.4422@cbnewsi.cb.att.com> adh@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay) writes:
- >
- > >i, too, have a dj-10 which i want to use with my system (not
- > >linux...). i called cms about qic docs and they pointed me to ray
- > >freeman [&] assoc. they're the official qic clearinghouse. i don't
- > >have their address/phone handy, but i called them and they sent me the
- > >qic-40 and qic-117 specs (and maybe 1 or 2 others) for free.
- >
- > The problem is that those specs don't sufficiently document (read: not at all)
- > how to program the floppy drive controller chip so that you can send and
- > receive the signals detailed in QIC-117 to the drive itself.
-
- Hell, CMS can't even get there own software to run under Microsoft Windows
- reliably! (re: version 2.54 of the Jumbo Tape drive software.) What makes you
- think it will work under LINUX? Since they are re-programming the floppy
- controller, I hope that we can access the tape drive and the floppy at the same
- time! (After all, it could be two different users using each!)
-
- > Does anyone know where I can get GOOD documentation of the floppy drive
- > controller?
-
- Er, um, the IBM BIOS? Oh, you wanted GOOD documentation! How well is the LINUX
- floppy driver commented? Linus must have coded it from some specification.
-
- Anyone know for sure what CMS does to access the tape drive (instead of the floppy)?
- Do they just use the third (or fourth) device select line and drive the floppy
- controller directly (bypassing the BIOS)?
-
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