stephen@hantsq.enet.dec.com (Stephen Wong) (07/04/90)
Hello, I am considering to buy a tape drive for my PC. The budget should be within US$400. The tape should be usable both in MS-DOS and SCO Unix environment. I found Colorado tape drive to be my choice. But there is one drawback, it will occupy a floppy connector, ie. I cannot have 5.25", 3.5" and tape drive at once. However, there is an additional card to allow user to connect two floppy drives and tape. Does anyone have experience with Colorado tape drive? Does anyone know how the situation will be if using the additional card? (How the CMOS setup will be, 1 floppy or 2 floppy, will MS-DOS and SCO Unix be easily access both floppy drives and tape?) What is the transfer rate can I expect? Please quote me something like xxMbyte per min. etc! I don't want to know the maximum speed which cannot be attained anyway! Where can I get the tape drive and card cheap? I perfer Mail-order-house, since I am not in USA. Finally, I do want to know more about other brands if they are within my budget and useable in DOS and Unix! stephen@hantsq.enet.dec.com
jpd@pc.usl.edu (Dugal James P.) (07/10/90)
In article <1861@engage.enet.dec.com> stephen@hantsq.enet.dec.com (Stephen Wong) writes: >I am considering to buy a tape drive for my PC. The budget should be within >US$400. The tape should be usable both in MS-DOS and SCO Unix environment. I >found Colorado tape drive to be my choice. But there is one drawback, it will >occupy a floppy connector, ie. I cannot have 5.25", 3.5" and tape drive at >once. However, there is an additional card to allow user to connect two floppy You're in luck, Stephen! The newer models of Jumbo with rev 40 firmware can operate WITHOUT A SEPERATE CONTROLLER even if you have a B drive. I am using one in my home system with A and B drives. It essentially operates in "parallel" with the B drive, but not concurrently, of course. The manual I got indicated that rev 39 would work also, but I can't say from experience. Do scour the ads in Computer Shopper to find the best price! -- -- James Dugal, N5KNX Internet: jpd@usl.edu Associate Director Ham packet: n5knx@w5ddl Computing Center US Mail: PO Box 42770 Lafayette, LA 70504 University of Southwestern LA. Tel. 318-231-6417 U.S.A.