>
> AppleUni Author wrote:
> >
> > I have 3 Archive Scorpion drives of various sub-modles. mostly mechanical
> > differences, but the same drive. All are 5945 Scorpions.
> > I have noticed that to the right of the 50 pin card edge there is a place
> > where two jumpers are. My questions are this:
> >
> > 1: Is this a tape deck ID?
>
> 5945 IS the drive identifier.
You didn't answer the question... what do these jumpers exactly do?
> > 2: Can I chain all three decks on the same card?
>
> Negative - 1 drive per SC400 card.
Even the SC-499 card? Bummer :-(
> > 3: If I can chain them, Does linux support > 1 QIC-02 on the same card?
>
> Negative.
If it did, I'd hack it in...
> Plus, at 45-60MB per tape and no method of repair, these things should
> really find their way to your local trash heap.
Pardon? These are for my museum. And I do have some repair parts. One drive
is new, and was never used.
> A DC600A tape (if you can locate one) is over US$40.
I can, actually locate them... and I have some and some DC300XL as well :-)
Media is not a problem. I have another CPU that uses the DC300XL/DC600A
carts also. It's a Z80 box tho ;-)
> It moves data at a whopping 92K/sec (5M/min).
Not bad for 10 year old technology... (my controller is dated 1989)
I do have faster drives... Just thought these would be nice for small
Immediate backups of archives < 10MB
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