Drive inventory

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 14 05:49:17 2002

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tothwolf wrote:

> That would work well if all the tape drives that use the floppy
> interface followed the rules, but not all do. I guess it would be
> possible to build a board with some logic chips that could isolate
> individual drives from the bus, but I think it would be much easier for
> now to only connect one drive at a time.

Can you elucidate? How can a floppy interface tape drive not follow the
rules and still work?

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