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- Path: hondo.cyberverse.com!gruel
- From: gruel@hondo.cyberverse.com (Nick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Tape Drives
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 03:25:09 GMT
- Organization: Cyberverse Online
- Message-ID: <4dsbml$eju@rodelo.cyberverse.com>
- References: <4dpop1$9o2@rodelo.cyberverse.com> <1524.6593T891T435@xmission.com>
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- In article <1524.6593T891T435@xmission.com>,
- John S. Burger <jsburger@xmission.com> wrote:
- >
- >On or about 20-Jan-96 08:49:53 Nick typed the following words about "Tape
- >Drives". My reply is thus...
- >
- > N> I need a tape backup unit, and I'd like to know if one such as the
- > N> MicroSolutions 'backpack' external model that hooks up to the parallel
- > N> port would work on my A3000.
- >
- > N> And what sort of software is there to use it?
- >
- >PeeCee parallel port tape drives will not work on the Amiga. Nor will ones
- >that use the floppy controller. You need a SCSI tape drive, assuming you have
- >a SCSI controller in your A3000.
-
- Yep. I kinda figured those tape drives wouldn't work.
-
- >How much data do you have to back up?
-
- Preferably around 1.5 gigs at a time. Want to be able to backup an
- entire drive at once.
-
- > I use a ZIP drive with AmiBack and it
- >works just great. With compression on I get about 135 megs per disk. Plus you
- >can use the ZIP for other things besides backup. Not so a tape drive and the
- >tapedrive is likely to cost more than a ZIP given that you can't use the cheap
- >PeeCee parallel/floppy drives.
-
- I was going to get a Zip drive about a month ago, before I also found out
- by calling at least 15 places, that there was no way I was going to get
- media for at least a month. By now it wouldn't have matterd. :/
-
-
- >Of course get a SCSI ZIP. :<)
-
- I think now I'll head for the Jazz drive instead. Makes more sense in my
- case, and my guess is the media will be more easily available due to the
- extra expense of both machine and media.
-
- Thanks.
-
- -Nick
-