rodney@solar.card.inpu.oz.au (Rodney Campbell) (02/08/91)
My workplace is considering buying an Amiga 3000UX and I see that an
optional QIC-150 tape drive is almost mandatory if one wants software
distributions - either this or a CD-ROM.
My question is - If I buy one of these Tape Drives (A3070)
and/or the Amiga CD-ROM, can I use this drive also on a SparcStation
(SS1+, IPC or SLC) and/or the Solbourne Series 4/5 SPARC machines. i.e. is
the QIC-150 a standard SCSI device and can I get/use the SUN drivers to
talk to it.
Basically I want a transportable QIC-150 drive for all of our
machines here anyway so I would like to use that same drive.
Will this be possible.... Any Comments...........
Rodney.....
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Rodney Campbell - Telecom Aust |MHSnet: rodney@solar.card.inpu.oz.au
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& Development |Phone : +61 (0)2 364 3346 Fax: +61 2 262 3813ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) (02/10/91)
rodney@solar.card.inpu.oz.au (Rodney Campbell) writes: > My question is - If I buy one of these Tape Drives (A3070) > and/or the Amiga CD-ROM, can I use this drive also on a SparcStation > (SS1+, IPC or SLC) and/or the Solbourne Series 4/5 SPARC machines. i.e. is > the QIC-150 a standard SCSI device and can I get/use the SUN drivers to > talk to it. SCSI I Tape drives are not sufficiently standardized that you can mix and match systems and drives, but there is a chance that it would work. It's certainly standard from a SCSI point of view (although I forget at the moment whether it has "Macintosh" or "standard" SCSI connectors). It's just the command set that's questionable. The raw drive is made by Caliper, perhaps they would know for sure about compatibility with your particular systems and software. -=] Ford [=- "The number of Unix installations (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) has grown to 10, with more expected." ford@amix.commodore.com - The Unix Programmer's Manual, uunet!cbmvax!ditto 2nd Edition, June, 1972. ford@kenobi.commodore.com