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- Subject: Re: [386bsd] Colorado Jumbo tape drive device driver.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.153749.1@vax.sonoma.edu>
- From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu
- Date: 10 Nov 92 15:37:49 -0800
- References: <raz.720786927@ultima> <1992Nov5.153537.1@vax.sonoma.edu> <1dchecINN4pk@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com> <1992Nov6.053234.9052@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov6.053234.9052@fcom.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- > In article <1dchecINN4pk@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com>, mattb@sdd.hp.com (Matt Bonner) writes:
- > |> In article <1992Nov5.153537.1@vax.sonoma.edu>, levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
- > |> |> In article <raz.720786927@ultima>, raz@socs.uts.edu.au (The Inimitable Raz) writes:
- > |> |> > Has anyone developed, is anyone working on, has anyone worked on a
- > |> |> > 386bsd driver for utilising Colorado Jumbo 250M, floppy controller
- > |> |> > attached, tape drives?
- > |> |> >
- > |> |> > Does anyone have any info or code at all for driving these items?
- > |> |> >
- > |> |> > raz@socs.uts.edu.au (Roland Turner) (OH) 61 2 906 4681
- > |> |>
- > |> |> It is amazing, that with all the Jumbo systems sold, only you and I are
- > |> |> asking about a driver for this tape drive!
- > |> |>
- > |> |> If you happen to find one, let me know. If I find one, I will let you
- > |> |> know.
- > |> |>
- > |> |> I am still waiting for Colorado Memory Systems to respond to a message
- > |> |> I sent to their Compuserv address. It has been about 3 weeks.
- > |>
- > |> This was discussed a few months ago, I believe the final answer was
- > |> that something in Colorado drive I/O was proprietary, and Colorado
- > |> wouldn't share, so you can't write the driver for them. I could be
- > |> wrong though, I didn't follow the thread too intently.
- >
- > Nope. There *is* a driver. The person who wrote it hasn't released it yet
- > and may not do so for some time. Apparently they have read streaming but not
- > write. I publicly ate crow on whether or not it was possible without a change
- > in the device priority mechanism about 2 months ago when I found out about
- > it, so I definitely remember.
- >
- >
- > Terry Lambert
- > terry@icarus.weber.edu
- > terry_lambert@novell.com
- > ---
- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- > or previous employers.
- > --
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > "I have an 8 user poetic license" - me
- > Get the 386bsd FAQ from agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- --
- Thanks. I will wait patiently. I will however offer a monetary contribution
- to whomever releases such a puppy.
- --
- Eric Levinson
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