From: buk@taz.de ($ Burkhard Kohl) Subject: Re: [A]RAWDISK.SYS: QIC-80 Backup of non-DOS disks Date: 23 Sep 1993 10:04:52 GMT
Juergen Prang (prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de) wrote:
: Currently a lot of work is done, to implement a driver for
: QIC-80 (Floppycontroller-) Streamertapes. In the meantime I
: decided to write a DOS device driver, that enables logical
: access to non-DOS disks/partitions under DOS.
As far as I know there is an drive for floppy tape streamers
for linux already available on sunsite.unc.edu:
/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/ftape-0.9.tar.z
or even higher.
As an aside I would like to say that we should not talk fo
"QIC-80" drivers since QIC-80 only specifies the tape format.
The signal interface is defined in (QIC-117 - hope that's right,
i don't have my QIC interface list at hand).
For the same reason you talk of QIC-02 interfaces and not of
QIC-24, QIC-150 and so on. I'am not even sure wether the floppy
tape drive uses the QIC-80 format - to me it would not make sense
because - for backup purposes - QIC-80 is overspecified.