stu@jpusa1.UUCP (Stu Heiss) (01/17/86)
line eater? I'm looking into the feasability of hooking an inexpensive tape to the existing floppy interface. The interface supports both 8in and 5.25in drives although the driver only supports 8in. I know of one drive that supposedly can be driven from a floppy interface, the Cipher 525. Has anyone tried to do something like this? Any recomendations on specific drives, Cipher or otherwise? Any suggestions as to what the existing driver would have to do differently? Would this require a re-write or could the existing driver be modified/work as-is? The literature blurb on the Cipher says that the "525 is hardware-compatible with either regular or mini-floppy conrollers and operates as a slow emulation of the floppy disk with minumal software changes." The required interface is the standard SA450 or SA850. This sounds too easy - am I missing something? Any thoughts/comments/flames welcome. Please reply by mail. Thanks in advance, Stu Heiss {ihnp4!jpusa1!stu} -- Stu Heiss {ihnp4!jpusa1!stu}