All depends on the IDE devicetype code of that device. The IDE bios
supports ATA (=harddisk), ATAPI direct access (LS120, ZIP100, ZIP250,
JAZZ?, ...) and ATAPI-CDROM.
Connect the device to your MSX and use IDEFDISK to show the Extended
infopage. Look at the 2nd byte.
bit76: 0x = ATA
10 = ATAPI
11 = reserved
bit5:reserved
bit43210: 00000=direct access
00001=sequential-access device (?probably your tapedrive?)
00101=CDROM
Complete IDE specs can be found at the WesternDigital ftpserver (url see
one of the IDE*.TXT files which can be found on www.msx.ch)
I think it is easier to connect a second harddisk to your MSX for making
backups :)
Jon - just returned from holidays and now reading 477 emails from the
list...
ps. some days ago, an MSX2 (I think Philips NMS8245) was shown on
Belgian television (in prime time :), TV1 '1000 Zonnen en Garnalen') It
was a few seconds visible in a story about disabled people making a
magazine)
Pierre Gielen wrote:
>
> Since I have a spare QIC-80 tape drive for IDE, I was wondering if it can be
> used as a backup device for my MSX with a Sunrise IDE-interface. Any hints
> on where to find info about building drivers for a IDE tape drive?
>
> Pierre
>
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