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mjn@sbmiclr.cs.sunysb.edu (The Sixth Replicant) writes:

>In article <1k131lINN2af@crcnis1.unl.edu> rlosee@unl.edu (Robert Losee) writes:
>>...
>>         My Gateway 2000 486/33 has a Maynard tape drive but OS/2
>>won't deal with it.  I understand I need a new drive as this one will
>>never work with OS/2 (is that correct?).

>Call up Maynard. I think they sell OS/2 software for most if not all of their
>drives. I found their phone staff to be very helpful when I was trying to
>get info about Irwin drives and OS/2 software.
Well, you can call them up, but unless things have changed in a big way
in the last couple of months Maynard is NOT supporting that drive (mine
is called Archive, but same thing). When I last spoke to Maynard folks
they told me they had no intention (ok "no plans") of writing software
for these floppy-card based drives. They DO have software for SCSI
drives, but that leaves the rest of us waiting for BackMaster, still in 
beta. So my impression is that, indeed these drives "will never work with OS/2"
at least as far as Maynard is concerned. Gee, what's so dang hard about
making these things work I suppose the answer is they're not as standard
as SCSI, but it ain't like they're single sided, 320 floppy drives that
came with the PC-1.