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From: mikey@shuksan.UUCP (Mike Fields)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Request for info about JUMBO CMS tape drive.
Summary: CMS Jumbo interface - now that is the ?
Keywords: JUMBO CMS Tape
Message-ID: <371@shuksan.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 90 16:06:22 GMT
References: <3579@cernvax.cern.ch>
Organization: The Boeing Co., MMST, Seattle, Wa.
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In article <3579@cernvax.cern.ch>, antoniop@cernvax.cern.ch (antonio pastore) writes:
> Hi netlanders,
> 
> I recently bought a tape drive from Colorado Memory System, model
> "JUMBO" 40-60 MB. Because I would like to directly access the drive
> using my own programs (I have already written a TAR alike program which
> I want to reuse with this tape), I am looking about the technical
> information on how to do it. Basically I would need reading/writing
> blocks of data. The tape is connected using the Floppy Disk controller.
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Please post anything you find out.  I called CMS with the same questions
recently and while they were nice to me, all they did was refer to 
getting a copy of the QIC-40 spec and one other (I don't have the info
with me).  They were not about to discuss the interface at all.  I would
like to find out how to talk to the tape as well since I want to be 
able to use tar as well as be able to read the tape directories  so
I can easily maintain a file of what is stored on the tapes.  The 
Jumbo does seem to be a nice drive for the money however, I just wish
it did not retension the tape each time you load a tape (I assume that
is what is doing when it runs the tape back and forth)!

mikey



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