Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 01:10:15 -0700 From: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@leonardo.net> To: steve2@genesis.tiac.net (Steve Gerakines) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Colorado Tape Drive (floppy tape) Message-ID: <199504250810.BAA00175@caern.protocorp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Apr 1995 14:36:56 EDT." <199504221836.OAA01099@genesis.tiac.net>
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Just a note of info about Colorado tape drives. While talking with the Colorado Memory Systems rep this morning to get a return authorization number for my drive (motor failure), he mentioned some interesting things. I was trying to get him to send me hardware info on the drive, since he remarked that treating a 350 like a 250 will get you a 250's worth of data on the tape. He said he couldn't do that but that whoever was handling the Linux driver could get any info we needed. Humbling, but possibly useful. Apparently some new stuff in the driver would be useful to get everything a 350 can do. I just looked at the driver; perhaps an entry in the geometry table would do it but of course I really don't know. Also, when I told him the little light was blinking in bursts of four (which he said indicates motor failure), the first question out of his mouth was, "Do you have the drive mounted immediately above a CD-ROM drive?" It turns out that's exactly what the integrator who built my machine did. He says that has a tendency to cook Colorado drives due to heat, and recommended that I swap the mountings around so that a floppy drive intervenes between the CD-ROM and the Colorado tape drive. Hope this info is some use. Mike O'Brien
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