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From: howard@nntp.best.com (Howard Lew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Exabyte TR-3 Eagle Tape Drives
Date: 31 Jan 1997 21:09:49 GMT
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FMSC (jlo@fmsc.com.au) wrote:
: Hello all,

: 	I was wondering if anyone was working on a driver for the floppy version
: of this tape drive. I have found a supply of them for more then reasonable
: price. Whilst this drive does not provide scsi/dat performance it will do
: the job I have in mind perfectly.

: 	I dont mind doing some coding or testing for people if they are working on
: this. 

: 	This drive is supported under Linux, so hopefully a port from there driver
: could be possible.

: 	Please reply to me via email if you have any information as I dont get to
: read newsgroups as  much as I would like to.

I too would be interested in such a driver as I have one of those drives
too, but I am not sure how to port a driver...




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