Drive inventory

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Thu Feb 14 14:41:01 2002

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf_at_concentric.net]
>
> > 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.
>
> Do you mean to say there are floppy-tape systems that ignore DS? How
> do they work?

Not very well? There were so many different companies producing so many
different drives, that I don't think I could even begin to sum up all the
strange things that some drives did.

-Toth
Received on Thu Feb 14 2002 - 14:41:01 GMT