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From: hinton@netcom.UUCP (Greg Hinton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: QIC-40 backup
Keywords: streaming tape backup
Message-ID: <1606@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jun 89 05:39:09 GMT
Organization: NetCom -- San Jose, CA
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The tedium of backing up data from hard disk to floppy is driving me crazy!
I've decided to bite the bullet & get my 1/4-inch streaming tape
drive working under minix, no matter how much blood I have to sweat to do it.

Before I begin, however, I thought I'd check & see if I'm duplicating someone
else's efforts.  Anybody written a device driver for these beasts?  Or even
a kludged program to read & write to them?  My unit is a Mountain TD4340.  I
have the OEM manual, which has just enough code to hint that this could be
pretty difficult.

Any info at all would really be appreciated.  Please email.  Of course, any
positive results in this project will be posted back here.

Thanks.