From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: vasco@icpnet.pl (Andrzej Popielewicz)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:05:16 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] Irwin 285
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Sergey Lapin pisze:
> Hi, all!
>
> Once, I was dismantling very old very long dead rusty box, which once
> ran some version of SCO UNIX.
> And I've got a strange device I've seen nowhere else - floppy-attached
> tape drive, labelled Irwin, model 285. Drive looks
> OK visually, motor wiring is perfect, so I can't see why it won't work.
> I tried to make it run with old and new versions of Linux, but failed.
> Do anybody have any documentation
> regarding this?
>
> Also - how wide these devices were used? I've never met one before
> while I can't say I have little IT experience.
>
> All the best,
> S.
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I have seen , I think 2 years ago, a company in California which still 
offered these drives brand new and tapes for them.Try to google.
The only system I know, which supports these drives, is Coherent.
You can still find sources of the driver and eventually port it to SCO.
But probably the manufacturer of this drive offers drivers for SCO.

Andrzej

Andrzej
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