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From: ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: The Amiga Tape Drive for A3000UX
Message-ID: <1038@amix.commodore.com>
Date: 10 Feb 91 07:17:47 GMT
References: <1991Feb8.014538.1430@solar.card.inpu.oz.au>
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Unix Development
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rodney@solar.card.inpu.oz.au (Rodney Campbell) writes:
> 	My question is - If I buy one of these Tape Drives (A3070)
> and/or the Amiga CD-ROM, can I use this drive also on a SparcStation
> (SS1+, IPC or SLC) and/or the Solbourne Series 4/5 SPARC machines. i.e. is
> the QIC-150 a standard SCSI device and can I get/use the SUN drivers to
> talk to it.

SCSI I Tape drives are not sufficiently standardized that you can mix
and match systems and drives, but there is a chance that it would
work.  It's certainly standard from a SCSI point of view (although I
forget at the moment whether it has "Macintosh" or "standard" SCSI
connectors).  It's just the command set that's questionable.  The raw
drive is made by Caliper, perhaps they would know for sure about
compatibility with your particular systems and software.

					-=] Ford [=-

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