Archive Cartridge Tape Drive 5540C

Hi I googled around a bit, and noticed that the 5540C comes in a 3.5" form factor. Held together with your statement sayting that it came off a floppy connector, it looks like a competitor to e.g. the BackPac from Microsolutions, TR1, and similar. This points again at the QIC-80 / DC2000 format. Do the cartridges say anything regarding the formatting, e.g. "Rhomat formatted" ? According to google, the 5540C has only a capacity of 40 MB, so what you can use it for today, is beyond me. I have used a lot of time trying to see if modern OS'es could talk to QIC-80 drives, and until now in vain. The best I can come up with, is that Windows versions newer then 95 do not allow you to talk to the hardware directly. I have a 486 with WIN3.11, used exclusively for reading QIC80 and Rhomat tapes. I also found a question identical to yours on www.driversguide.com, but no-one has come up with a solution. This question was 5 years old. So, unless you have some tapes you must read, my opinion is that you should bin it. Nico ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damien Cymbal" <d_cymbal(a)hotmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 3:07 PM Subject: Re: Archive Cartridge Tape Drive 5540C --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.701 / Virus Database: 458 - Release Date: 07-06-2004