Yuck! 

I hate those floppy ribbon cable tape drives!

I have even seen then disable a floppy disk drive when the tape drive
is in use. Most likely a DMA conflict? 

Jeff Northon


On Sat, 10 May 1997, Peter Seebach wrote:

> I don't recall seeing these discussed before.  I got one of these as
> a cheap way to preserve the important things I do on the Windows side
> of my PC (game save files, mostly), but I was thinking it'd be cool to
> be able to write to these from NetBSD.  I have an iomega "ditto" internal
> tape drive.  It can store up to 800 MB per tape, which in my case proves
> to be 120... and it runs on the *floppy* controller, at an astounding
> maximum of 500kb/second.  (*bits*, not bytes.)
> 
> While this is inarguably a fairly pathetic rate, it's better than
> using floppies, but I don't see any support.  How hard would this
> likely be?  Any interest?
> 
> -s
>