floppytape driver wanted
Paul Fox
pgf at cayman.COM
Wed Jul 11 03:03:25 AEST 1990
I have a tape drive, "Cypher Model 525 Floppytape", which I
would like to use for system backups. I don't know much about
the thing, except that the host interface is purported to be
quite similar to that of a floppy disk drive. (That is, they
select the data stream using drive select, move the tape using
the step control, etc.) Does anyone know it there's a public
domain or commercial driver around for this kind of drive,
preferably using the 386 AT's on-board floppy controller, or
alternatively an add-on controller? Anyone know how different
a driver for this thing would be from the standard floppy
driver?
Also, can someone point me at the data format standards for
tape? This same drive is used on other unix systems -- AT&T
UNIX pc for one -- and I'd like to produce a compatible format
if I end up writing my own driver.
By the way, what is QIC (QIC-02 ?) format? How different is
it from other standards? How widespread?
As you can see, any pointers would be quite helpful. Thanks.
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paul fox, pgf at cayman.com, (617)494-1999
Cayman Systems, 26 Landsdowne St., Cambridge, MA 02139
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