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From: Joel Sutton <sutton@aardvark.apana.org.au>
To: "James F. Hranicky" <jfh@cise.ufl.edu>
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Subject: Re: QIC Drives on the parallel port 
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> Is there any support for the QIC drives that hook up to the parallel
> port? I did a tar tvzf /dev/lpt0 once, and the drive tried to do some
> stuff, but apparently really didn't know what was going on.

Not as far as I know. Only floppy controller type QIC drives seem to 
work - and then you're limited to QIC-40/80 only. And SCSI of course. 

Colorado Jumbo 250/350 and some Conner floppy tape drives are known to
work. (Reports from anyone else are welcome :->). 

Did you have a specific drive in mind? If you can afford it, SCSI is 
definately the better option.

Cheers, Joel...