21 Jan
2010
21 Jan
'10
4:51 p.m.
Those type of drives used a floppy interface but didn't look like a
floppy. If I remember right, the seek signal was a data clock and the
seek direction signal was the out data. I don't remember the in data.
The other signals were ignored.
You sent command blocks to the tape drive by sending a series of seek
requests that caused the command block to be encoded on the seek/seek
direction pins. The you would toggle the seek pin and read the input
pin to read the response.
Brantley.
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On Jan 21, 2010, at 5:26 AM, Sergey Lapin <slapinid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, all!
Once, I was dismantling very old very long dead rusty box, which once
ran some version of SCO UNIX.
And I've got a strange device I've seen nowhere else - floppy-attached
tape drive, labelled Irwin, model 285. Drive looks
OK visually, motor wiring is perfect, so I can't see why it won't
work.
I tried to make it run with old and new versions of Linux, but failed.
Do anybody have any documentation
regarding this?
Also - how wide these devices were used? I've never met one before
while I can't say I have little IT experience.
All the best,
S.
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