home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!cygnus.com!dje
- From: dje@cygnus.com (Doug Evans)
- Subject: Re: QIC 40 / QIC 80 ?
- Organization: Cygnus Support
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 15:24:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep04.152437.22327@kithrup.COM>
- X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
- References: <1992Sep3.174918.9822@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Sender: news@kithrup.COM (Network News)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: cygnus.com
- Lines: 14
-
- Bill Parquet (billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu) wrote:
- : I've seen a lot of discussion about this. The people who were working on
- : that for 386bsd complained that the timing requirements were extremely tight
- : for running qic 40/80... At least too tight for a multitasking environment.
- :
- : If it were really necessary, I'd much rather have a tape backup program that
- : ran in some sort of exclusive mode than nothing at all.
-
- CMS wrote a device driver for SCO Unix and Xenix and it runs fine for me
- in both single user mode and full multitasking mode.
-
- --
- Doug Evans | With views like these ...
- dje@cygnus.com | who needs disclaimers.
-