3.5" drives and tape drive in Unix PC

[andrew.d.hay]

In article <22605 at pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> sjohn at cory.Berkeley.EDU (John Sasinowski) writes:
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"	Jameco also has a tape drive that stores up to 60MB on a tape
"and that runs on standard IBM controller cards.  Does anyone know if
"this will work on a Unix PC?

if this is the cms jumbo, (and probably all others that 'work off the
floppy controller') the answer is 'yes and no'.  electrically it will,
but it requires a driver.
coincidentally, i have a back-burner project to write just such a
driver for the jumbo.  i will be moving it up to front-burner this
summer.

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