3.5" drives and tape drive in Unix PC

[Bruce Becker]

In article <22605 at pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> sjohn at cory.Berkeley.EDU (John Sasinowski) writes:
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|	I am interested in adding a 3.5" drive to my Unix PC to make
|backing up the hard disk easier.  Jameco Electronics has a drive that
|is listed as a 720K drive for an IBM PC.  Will this work in my machine?
|If so, will it give me 800K on a disk?  The drive is manufactured by
|Sony.

	Yes, and yes. One person I know has connected
	a switch and added the drive so that he can
	switch back & forth between the existing 5.25"
	drive & a 3.5" drive - it works just fine.

|	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 it can be set up to look to the controller
	like a floppy with more tracks, it might work
	OK. This implies random access & floppy drive
	hardware interface compatibility. If it needs
	special software or driver, it probably would
	not work...

Cheers,
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