From: umisef@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Bernd Meyer) Subject: Re: QIC-40 idea... Date: 5 Oct 1992 22:58:22 GMT
Another though on the badness of QIC-40 drives:
I have this Irwin streamer in my box, and from all of the
docs I read so far, it would also run on a 8088 based PC.
Now, with myself having an 486, a dos-emulator and linux,
I might get the idea of running the original software with
the emulator. Of course, it crashed, due to limited IO
privileges (I think).
BUT:
Giving the process these priviliges (sp?), and feeding a
tar of everything we want to backup through a FIFO (or
is it a named pipe?), which looks like some normal file
to the emulator, should write the tar archive to tape
without too many problems. Of course, there would be at
least two processes running (DOS and tar), but this shouldn't
kill it.... The machine is fast.
Does anybody know why this would not work? If not, does anybody
have documentation for the iopl() system call, or even better,
about all this vm86 stuff, so I can try and program the thing?
Thanks,
Bernie
umisef@mcshh.hanse.de