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- From: dkm@col.hp.com (Dave K. Martin)
- Subject: Re: 3M MCD-40 Tape Drives & HDBackup
- Sender: news@col.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.181142.8261@col.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:11:42 GMT
- References: <69567@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division
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- I have two (yes 2, and *no* I don't want to sell one!) of the 3M MCD-40 tape
- drives. I use either BTNTAPE 2.1 or usually Quarterback 5.0 with them.
- It is great being able to back up two hard drives at the same time, there
- doesn't seem to be much SCSI bus contention (this is with a C=2091).
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- BTNTAPE and TAR are available from the Fred Fish collection. BTNTape requires
- that you create a mountlist and that you use TAR to do the backups/restores.
- Quarterback 5.0 just asks for the SCSI id, no mountlist required. BTNTAPE
- supports multi-volume tape sets (if the MCD-40 has the correct roms) but
- Quarterback doesn't seem to support this, it gives a write error and quits
- instead of asking for a new tape volume (maybe AmiBack does support multi-
- volume tapes). As long as I remember this and don't try to back up more than
- 39.8 meg per tape (I use 40m partitions anyway), QB works fine.
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- Dave Martin - dkm@col.hp.com
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