kpt@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kevin Twidle) (05/20/88)
I have an Irwin tape drive on my AT clone. It works fine when using the Irwin tape utilities under DOS. However, I would like to use it with Minix, does anyone out there know how to drive the thing? I did try reading /dev/fd1 under Minix and as a consequence had to press the big red button. It must use the standard floppy commands in some magic order as it is plugged into my hard/floppy disk controller in place of drive B:. Any pointers to its requirements and/or things to watch out for will be gratefully received. Kevin ----- Kevin Twidle Tel: +44 1 589 5111 x5068 kpt@doc.ic.ac.uk Dept of Computing,Imperial College,180 Queen's Gate,London SW7 2BZ, England "It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in"
berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu (05/24/88)
I'd like to know too. I have an Irwin backup drive, but NO software.
Mike Berger
Department of Statistics
Science, Technology, and Society
University of Illinois
berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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