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From: morris@dms.UUCP (Jim Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Colorado Memory Jumbo+ Tape Drive and Esix
Message-ID: <980@dms.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 90 18:58:05 GMT
References: <1653@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
Organization: Atari Games Inc., Milpitas, CA
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From article <1653@atha.AthabascaU.CA>, by louis@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Louis Schmittroth):
>
> I would recommend staying away from the JUMBO drive at least on Xenix,
> and probably on UNIX.  I installed two, and had to remove both.  Erratic...

I have been using one on a Xenix system for months now and the only problem I have
had is that dust got into the light sensor, so a tape ran off its spool!
This is not really the tape drives fault, I now clean out the drive regularly.

I think the Jumbo Tape drive is a great deal for $265 (Mail order), and it works
fine.

> On MS-DOS I have heard they are OK.  The nice thing about the ARCHIVE
> drive is that it is supported directly by SCO. 

So is the Jumbo+ drive. The floppy qic-40 driver that comes with Xenix 2.3.2
works perfectly well with it.
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