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- From: fmg@alpha.smi.med.pitt.edu (Filip Gieszczykiewicz)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: QIC-80 with Linux + 2.88MB questions
- Summary: will this controller help?
- Keywords: tape Colorado IOmega backup
- Message-ID: <2323@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 06:34:27 GMT
- Sender: news+@pitt.edu
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Organization: Medical Informatics, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- Greetings. Perhaps a bit off-subject but I saw something that
- toggled that bit in the back of my mind... JDR (elecronic
- parts place) has something called
-
- "2.88MB intelligent Floppy Controller... Allows booting from a
- 2.88MB diskette... Supports QIC-80 1MB/sec transfers, eliminating
- expensive controllers... Part # MCT-FDC-ED (catalog #2
- (1992)) @ $79.95"
-
- So, anyone ever try one of these? Will it ease the timing
- problems that these cheap tape drives have with Linux? (I'm
- VERY interested in a reply - I have one :-)
-
- Also, BTW, about that 2.88MB... Does Linux support it?
-
- Take care.
-
- P.S. I have no stock in this firm... All I ever ordered from
- them was some proto boards....
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- | Filip "I'll buy a vowel" Gieszczykiewicz. | Best e-mail "fmgst+@pitt.edu" |
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