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Subject: Re: Maintainer of ft/lft
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:03:59 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199704251642.JAA03539@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 25, 97 09:42:01 am
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As Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > > Do I need to go into the whole "VHS sucks, but it still won over Beta"
> > > discussion again?
> > 
> > QIC is QIC...  interchangable...  interoperable...  do you have the
> > standards documents?  i do...
> 
> Are these sufficient to write a driver that works with all QIC-117
> drives?
> 
> If so, I withdrawl the aspersion, and would be *very* happy to know
> where you got the documentation.  I would probably even be willing
> to work on a driver for the IOmega tape drive, if you have a source
> for the technical documents not under non-disclosure; seeing as it's
> also QIC-117 and they are standard, it should be easy to write with
> QIC-117 documentation available.
> 

>From the time I spent looking around in QIC-117 and related standards,
there should be little problem with developing for QIC-80 revision c and up
using the standards...  QIC-3010, 3020, and 40 I'm not as sure about as 
I didn't spend as much time looking in those standards.

I would do this myself if I had the time and resources, or I would do so.

I don't have the contact information for getting the QIC standards 
readibly accessable, but I can go digging for it if someone wants me to

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Joe Diehl <joed@ksu.edu>
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