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- From: lclarke@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Lee Clarke)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Suggestions for tape, CD, sound card for Gateway 2k
- Message-ID: <Jan.27.09.54.08.1993.29758@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 14:54:09 GMT
- References: <1k131lINN2af@crcnis1.unl.edu> <1993Jan25.184525.16682@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant) writes:
-
- >In article <1k131lINN2af@crcnis1.unl.edu> rlosee@unl.edu (Robert Losee) writes:
- >>...
- >> My Gateway 2000 486/33 has a Maynard tape drive but OS/2
- >>won't deal with it. I understand I need a new drive as this one will
- >>never work with OS/2 (is that correct?).
-
- >Call up Maynard. I think they sell OS/2 software for most if not all of their
- >drives. I found their phone staff to be very helpful when I was trying to
- >get info about Irwin drives and OS/2 software.
- Well, you can call them up, but unless things have changed in a big way
- in the last couple of months Maynard is NOT supporting that drive (mine
- is called Archive, but same thing). When I last spoke to Maynard folks
- they told me they had no intention (ok "no plans") of writing software
- for these floppy-card based drives. They DO have software for SCSI
- drives, but that leaves the rest of us waiting for BackMaster, still in
- beta. So my impression is that, indeed these drives "will never work with OS/2"
- at least as far as Maynard is concerned. Gee, what's so dang hard about
- making these things work I suppose the answer is they're not as standard
- as SCSI, but it ain't like they're single sided, 320 floppy drives that
- came with the PC-1.
-