Archive Cartridge Tape Drive 5540C

From: Dr. Ido <dr.ido_at_bigpond.net.au>
Date: Tue Jun 8 08:20:32 2004

At 10:42 PM 6/7/04 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Anybody know how to access the above running under either DOS or Linux?
It has a 5.25" floppy connector on it. I don't have any drivers for it (do
I need them?), just a QS.EXE (QuicStream?) archive DOS app which pukes with
a divide overflow error during its "Initializing tape drives" phase.
Knoppix doesn't even see it during HW detection. Any config pointers?
>
>Thanks.

I'm not familiar with that particular drive, but I have other tape drives
that have a floppy interface. The ones that I have used never had any
drivers, you just ran the software that came with them.

What system are you trying to run this on? I find divide overflow errors
are quite common when running some old software on recent (Pentium and
above, sometimes even 486) systems. I'd install the drive in an older
system (486, 386, etc). If that is not an option try disabling both the
internal and external cache in the BIOS setup program. Divide by zero
errors are often cache related.
Received on Tue Jun 08 2004 - 08:20:32 BST