home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: news99.sunet.se!umdac!news
- From: Joakim â•“gren <qtech@ts.umu.se>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Using PC parallel tape drives on an Amiga?
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 21:37:30 -0100
- Organization: Q-Tech Software
- Message-ID: <30F43FAA.6EBC@ts.umu.se>
- References: <821091298.7873@slough.demon.co.uk>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ipcs2-1.modem.umu.se
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
- X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4 (Win95; I)
-
- Mr. Craig Poxon wrote:
- >
- > Is anyone out there backing up their Amiga with a vanilla PC parallel
- > tape drive? Is there software or drivers which can be used to control
- > them or do ypu have to go to a the devices manufacturer to see if they
- > have Amiga software (dont fancy my chances much)? We have plenty of
- > these machines lying around at work, but no SCSI ones, so I would like
- > to use one to back up my hard-drive before something goes wrong.
-
- I read somewhere that the next version of AmiBack should support
- Colorado parallel streamers, but this was a long time ago and I haven't
- seen any new AmiBack version yet.
-
- Remember that all manufacturers of parallel streamers makes their of
- protocols. Floppy streamers use a standardised protocol called QIC-117.
- I tried to get som information from Colorado about their protocol (to
- make a backupprogram for the Amiga) but they refused to co-operate. Too
- bad.
-
- Regards,
-
- Joakim Ogren
- qtech@mailhost.net
-
-