Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcso!erik
From: erik@hpfcso.HP.COM (Erik Lode)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Colorado Mag Tape driver for SYSV/386
Message-ID: <7350006@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 90 16:35:47 GMT
References: <10622@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Lines: 34

/ hpfcso:comp.unix.i386 / goroff@kashmir.TTI.COM (Marc Goroff) /  4:38 pm  Mar  7, 1990 /
> I am thinking about using a Colorado Memory Systems 40Mbyte tape drive
> as a cheap ($240) backup device for my 386 SysV box at home. It is an
> internal drive that sits on a floppy disk controller. CMS claims
> to have a driver for Xenix, but not Unix. Does anybody have a driver for
> this unit under SysV, or perhaps source code to the Xenix driver??
> Any help would be appreciated.

> -------------------------------
> Marc Goroff					goroff@kashmir.tti.com
> CitiCorp Transaction Technology Inc.	     or mhg@theory3.caltech.edu
> Santa Monica, CA
> ----------

Hello, my name is Matt Nelson I am the Unix/Xenix Specialist for Customer 
Support at Colorado Memory Systems.  In response to your question, We have been distributing our own xenix driver for about ten months and have ruffly 5000 
xenix users in the field at this time many of which are very happy and who back
up every day.  As to the question about SysV many of the various versions are 
currently under Beta Test and we plan to release these versions sometime in May.
This Unix driver for the Colorado Memory Systems tape drive will be fully menu
driven.  The driver also conforms to the QIC-117 and QIC-40 standards. Unix 
versions that are being tested and released are: SCO, AT&T, 386ix Interactive,
and Intel.


Any further discussion and or questions please address to me at Colorado Memory
Systems by phone or US Mail:

Colorado Memory Systems
Matt Nelson, Support Engineer
800 S. Taft
Loveland, CO 80537

Voice:  800-432-5858 ext. 533