Meeting or no meeting tonight? Re: [Tfug] Pass-through cable?

Harry McGregor tfug@tfug.org
Sun Dec 1 13:04:01 2002


Is there a meeting tonight?  I was under the impression that with John
Morrow out of town, the meeting was canceled.

			Harry

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, A.Chris Hilton wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:04:54 -0700 (MST)
> "Scott Denlinger" <sbd@dakotacom.net> wrote:
>
> > I moved my hard drives and other peripherals onto a new system
> > recently. My new system board doesn't have any ISA slots--only PCI.
> > There are certainly advantages to this, but now I can't run my QIC
> > tape backup drive off the dedicated controller card which came with
> > it, since it's an ISA card. A tech at SWS told me I need a
> > "pass-through" cable to connect the QIC drive to the same cable my
> > floppy drive is on, so I can use both devices through my system board
> > floppy controller. Does anybody know where I can get one of these? The
> > tech said that HP used to make one, but he hasn't seen one "in the
> > wild" since about 1996. Does anybody here in town have one they can
> > part with?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Scott Denlinger
> > sbd@dakotacom.net
>
> I have a couple of cables like this.  I'm not sure they'll work with
> your specific tape drive, but your welcome to them if they do. I'll
> bring them to the meeting tonight.
>
> -C-
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