Hello
> Oops, just remembered that the QIC-80 tape drive is not an IDE device. It
> was connected to the Shugart interface, so it's probably not interesting
to
> try to write a driver for MSX for it.
Modern QIC tapedrives, like HP colorado 5gb are IDE devices. But then again,
it uses travan tec
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Subject: Re: QIC-80 tape driver for IDE-interface?
Oops, just remembered that the QIC-80 tape drive is not an IDE device. It
was connected to the Shugart interface, so it's probably not interesting to
try to write a driver for MSX for it.
Pierre
Problems? co
Oops, just remembered that the QIC-80 tape drive is not an IDE device. It
was connected to the Shugart interface, so it's probably not interesting to
try to write a driver for MSX for it.
Pierre
Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.msxnet.org/
All depends on the IDE devicetype code of that device. The IDE bios
supports ATA (=harddisk), ATAPI direct access (LS120, ZIP100, ZIP250,
JAZZ?, ...) and ATAPI-CDROM.
Connect the device to your MSX and use IDEFDISK to show the Extended
infopage. Look at the 2nd byte.
bit76: 0x = ATA
10 =
Since I have a spare QIC-80 tape drive for IDE, I was wondering if it can be
used as a backup device for my MSX with a Sunrise IDE-interface. Any hints
on where to find info about building drivers for a IDE tape drive?
Pierre
Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also http://www.faq.ms
