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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: Tape drive choices for 386BSD?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.211531.22956@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 21:15:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug30.081319.7539@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) writes:
- >I'd rather buy a simple QIC-80 such as a Colorado 250 for about
- >$250. Is someone working on support for drives of this type?
-
- Timing is critical on QIC-80 and QIC-40 drives. I don't know if
- anyone has gone in and added sufficient granularity to the scheduler and/or
- interrupt code to fix this, but I seriously doubt it.
-
- There are several SCSI-based drives that have been tested and seem
- to work on 386BSD... they are listed in a posting prior to this one about
- the mudular SCSI system (not posted by me).
-
- I don't know what the status is on Computone/Archive drives which
- come with their own controller (Anyone have one of these working?), but I
- syspect you won't be able to get away very cheaply in any case unless you
- are using SCSI.
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
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