From: der@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Dave Ritchie) Subject: Re: Summary of: What tape drives work with Linux Date: 29 Sep 1992 05:19:53 GMT
In <BvAo5K.17zH@afsserv.boulder.ibm.com> carl@boxelder.Berkeley.EDU (Carl vonLoewenfeldt) writes:
>It is my understanding that Colorado Memory Systems and Irwin backup
>tape drives
>attach, not via SCSI, but via the IDE connection already in use for the floppy
>disk drives. They interpose themselves as a two-sided connection between tape
>drive and cable, effectively daisy-chaining.
Ouch.... floppy drives are not IDE interface -- they are the 34 pin
Shugart connection that all 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" drives use. As I recall,
the IDE interface is 40 pins....
Having hooked up a QIC-40 drive a few weeks ago, you just hook the
new cable into the controller and tape drive, and the old cable that
formerly pluged into the controller plugs into a special socket on the
new cable provided with the tape drive. Somehow, the floppies are
turned off and the tape drive is driven by the floppy controller.
-- Dave Ritchie
der@hpuerca.atl.hp.com