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From: wkt@rodos2.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Hardware info for IBM-PC Tape Drives
Keywords: tape specs help
Message-ID: <2022@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au>
Date: 8 Nov 90 22:20:04 GMT
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Would anybody have any technical specifications etc. on some tape drives
for the IBM-PC, specifically the Everex 40Meg, Archive XL 5540 40Meg,
and Archive XL 3800 80Meg tape drives. These drives use the standard
floppy disk controller card for I/O.

I'm running the Minix operating system, and I'd like to know if these
cards `emulate' floppy drives, i.e. do they pretend to have heads, tracks
and sectors. If so, I should be able to modify my floppy device driver
to accomodate a tape drive.

For those PC Minixers out there, has anybody done the modifications to
get one of these to work already?

Thanks in advance!


   Warren Toomey VK1XWT, relicensed
Deep in the bowels of ADFA Comp Science.
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