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From: j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: HELP: How do I tell which QIC-?? interface?
Date: 5 Jul 1993 17:47:39 +0200
Organization: Textil Computer Design GmbH, Dresden, Germany
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In article <1993Jun30.175919.11169@news.uta.edu> sholder@cse.uta.edu (Shane Andrew Holder) writes:
>
>I have an Archive VP150 tape drive.  I know it's a QIC device but I
>don't know which one.[...]
>A friend of mine
>suspects it's a QIC-80.

Your friend is wrong. Though the Archive Viper is using QIC's (which
simply means quarter-inch cartridge), it has a SCSI interface. I'm
succesfully using it along with an Adaptec 1542-{A,B} and Julian's
SCSI drivers.
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