Floppy controller based cartridge for 3b1?

[andrew.d.hay]

In article <435 at yonder.UUCP> michael at yonder.UUCP (Michael E. Haws) writes:
"I realize I am very likely showing my ignorance, but nothing
"ventured nothing gained.  Is there any chance that the
"floppy controlled based mini-cartridges (40 mg) would work
"with the 3b1.  I use them at work on a compaq running
"SCO xenix.  The cartridges have to be formatted before use
"just as if they were a floppy.  

you're talking about qic-40 tapes, right?

"There is probably something obvious as to why this would
"not work (i.e. need different device driver, hardware incompatibilty,
"etc).  Sure would be nice if it did work.

yes, it does require a device driver, which i plan to work on just as
soon as i get my hd2 board (are you listening, jbm? ;^>).
this is a project of long standing - coming up on a year - which has
been on hold because of the difficulty of working with only one floppy
device on the 3b1.  i have done a substantial amount of design work
for it, though.

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