I have full manuals for the drive, the software, and the optional FC-10 or was it FC-20 controller card. Matter of fact, I still have several of the drives, and at least one, maybe two - of the controller cards, and I also have all the software for it (several versions). All the drives worked with the floppy controller. However, the PC floppy controller was limited in throughput, so if you bought the optional "high speed" controller card, it would run several times faster. The high speed controller card was just a fancy floppy controller, but you couldn't hook floppies to it. QIC-80 is the format. The cartridge is DC2120. I have an entire bookshelf full of them - backups from when I ran a bbs for years. I strongly suspect Linux would support it, but am not sure. You may have to build a custom kernel to add the device if it isn't already there. FreeBSD definitely supports it, but not sure if you have to build a customer kernel or if it's already there. Of course, DOS and Windows 95 support it just fine. Dumpster? What's that?

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Gary Hildebrand wrote: There were two major versions of these drives. The earlier one had a 34 position card edge connector, and I believe can be connected to the floppy controller with just a standard floppy cable (before the twist). The later version of the drive uses a right angle header, and needs a special cable that changes up the signal lines a little. If your drive is the later type, I'll see if I can find my old drive to check that special cable. -Toth