Drive inventory

From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Thu Feb 14 15:48:16 2002

Today while unpacking some of the boxes from the move I found a Black
external drive NOMAI 540 and it's SCSI. It's uses a strange 12V power
supply connector and of course I do not have the supply that goes with
it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tothwolf" <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:41 PM
Subject: RE: Drive inventory


> 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 - 15:48:16 GMT