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- From: Evert de Vos <vosev@sh.bel.alcatel.be>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: DAT questions!
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:06:38 +0100
- Organization: Alcatel/Bell
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- Benjamin Kenobi wrote:
- >
- > Hey, I'm thinking of getting a DAT backup for my amiga and would like to
- > hear the experiences of other amiga DAT users. Alsom, do you actually
- > need to format DAT tapes before using them? If this is the case, are
- > there any programs which support this on the amiga?
-
- I use a HP35470A (if I got this number correct) and it works great.
- I use BTN3.0 with it or Quarterback 6.03.
-
- One problem: if I use BTN, I can't use Quarterback correctly
- without turning my amiga first off and on. A reset is not
- enough. I suspect this to be a lack of initialisation of
- the DAT by Quarterback.
-
- Greetinx /Evert
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