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Subject: Re: 8mm Exebyte drive on PC's (hardware? drivers?)
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From: rlm@sunlight.Physics.UIowa.Edu (Robert Mutel)
Date: 17 Apr 91 16:24:51 -0500
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In article <1991Apr15.182638.11081@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, jacksu@sara.atmos.uiuc.edu (Jack Su) writes:
|> 
|> Hi
|> 
|> Currently we have an 8mm Exebyte drive connected to a Sparcstation. 
|> We need to connect this 8mm drive to a 386 for a summer field project.  
|> Specifically, does anyone have any experience/information on the
|> following:
|> 
|> 1)  SCSI card for the AT bus that will work with the Exebyte drive.
|> 2)  Device driver (and/or library) for the Exebyte drive allowing
|> 	access via C (or possibly FORTRAN) programs in a DOS environment..
|> 
|> 
|> Thanks in advance for any information.
|> 
|> Jack 

Call Novastor (818-707-9900) and ask for Peter Means. They have a set of C language routines for the Exabyte 8mm tape unit called C Programmer's Interface. It supports Adaptec and Always SCSI interface boards. List price is $295 (20% Edu discount). 

I can't vouch for the software since we haven't purchased it yet. (We probably will order it soon though).
-- 
Robert Mutel
Dept of Physics and Astronomy
University of Iowa

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