On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Jeff wrote:
> I recently purchased a refurbished Iomega Ditto 3200 internal( says
> "Iomega Ditto Easy 3200" on front) and wish to use it for backups using
> ftape. The unit has no noticible jumpers on it to set the irq & io, so
> I contacted Iomega to find what the defaults are. They replied:
>
> > I regret it to inform you that Iomega products are not supported in Unix/Linix
>Operating systems.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Bill
> > Iomega Technical Support
> >
>
> My questions are:
> 1) Has this drive successfully been used on the internal FDC?
>
> 2) I don't know much about tape drives, but some of the language in the
> supported drives section of the howto make me think that the io, irq,
> and dma settings are on the drive. Is this true? If I want to use the
> on board FDC how would I determine what they are?
The io, irq and dma settings are not deterimined by the drive, but by the
controller. I have one of these drives, but it came with a Ditto Dash
accelerator card.
I believe that with the FDC, you can use the defaults in MCONFIG. I have
done so with an older Colorado drive which uses the FDC.
Bob
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