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- From: colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning)
- Subject: Re: QIC 40 / QIC 80 ?
- Message-ID: <colin.715839336@marsh>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Sep3.134617@tiger1.prime.com> <1992Sep3.174918.9822@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <LILJEBER.92Sep4175849@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 04:15:36 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Sep3.174918.9822@uoft02.utoledo.edu> billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Bill Parquet) 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.
-
- >So these people have actually managed to get some specific info on how to
- >access the tape drive! Was the driver a general one, or for a drive from
- >a particular vendor? Do you remember the names of these people?
-
- >The subject of QIC 40/80 tape drives crops up every now and then. So far
- >nothing has come of it, because no-one seems to know how to program these
- >beasts. I've been under the impression that the information is proprietary.
- >Please prove me wrong! :-)
-
- You can get the QIC documents from
- QIC Drive Standards, Inc.
- 311 East Carrillo Street
- Santa Barbara, Cal. 93101
- Tel: 805-963-3853
- Fax: 805-962-1541
-
- (extracted from an article posted on comp.unix.bsd - there is some discussion
- there also)
-
- >> 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.
-
- >Agreed. The main objective is to be able to _use_ a tape drive. If the rest of
- >the system is down for the duration, so be it.
-
- > Mika
- >--
- >Mika Liljeberg Email: liljeber@kruuna.Helsinki.FI
- >Helsinki University Mika.Liljeberg@Helsinki.FI
- >Dept. of Computer Science
- --
- Colin [colin@cs.curtin.edu.au]
-
- "Knowledge is not knowing all the answers, but knowing where to find them."
- -anon.
-