Hi
I googled around a bit, and noticed that the 5540C comes in a 3.5" form
factor. Held together with your statement sayting that it came off a floppy
connector, it looks like a competitor to e.g. the BackPac from
Microsolutions, TR1, and similar. This points again at the QIC-80 / DC2000
format. Do the cartridges say anything regarding the formatting, e.g.
"Rhomat formatted" ?
According to google, the 5540C has only a capacity of 40 MB, so what you can
use it for today, is beyond me.
I have used a lot of time trying to see if modern OS'es could talk to QIC-80
drives, and until now in vain.
The best I can come up with, is that Windows versions newer then 95 do not
allow you to talk to the hardware directly. I have a 486 with WIN3.11, used
exclusively for reading QIC80 and Rhomat tapes.
I also found a question identical to yours on www.driversguide.com, but
no-one has come up with a solution. This question was 5 years old.
So, unless you have some tapes you must read, my opinion is that you should
bin it.
Nico
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> From: "Nico de Jong" <nico_at_farumdata.dk>
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> > I wouldnt be surprised if the drive is "related" to a 5945C I have. This
> is
> > a QIC-36 drive. If my supposition is correct (based on the floppy
> connector
> > you mention), you will need a special QIC02/QIC36 controller, and the
> > software to go with it.
>
> Maybe, but I remember pullling this drive out of an old 486 a couple years
> ago and I could have sworn that there were no additional adapters in the
> box. It looked like it was just connected to the FDD. I could be wrong
> about that, but I feel pretty confident that was the case.
>
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