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- From: leekil@bbn.com (Lee Kilpatrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Tape Drive Questions (was: Re: 3M MCD-40 Tape Drives & HDBackup)
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 22:55:35 GMT
- Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
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- References: <69567@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov16.181142.8261@col.hp.com>
- Reply-To: leekil@BBN.COM (Lee Kilpatrick)
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- In article <1992Nov16.181142.8261@col.hp.com> dkm@col.hp.com (Dave K. Martin) writes:
- >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).
- >
- >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.
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- What disk is BTNtape 2.1 on? I easily found BTNtape2.0 on the net,
- but 2.1 has been more elusive.
-
- Also, someone talked about using gnutar on the Amiga for tape drives.
- I am using the tar version mentioned in the BTNtape documents, but one
- thing I want to be able to do is transfer data using tapes & tar from
- a Unix system. When I have done this in the past using disks and this
- version of tar, it doesn't properly read the dates from the
- Unix-created archive. I was hoping gnutar would fix this.
-
- Also, I was unable to simply un-tar a tape made on a Unix system. Is
- there any special trick you have to do with Unix blocking factors and
- such to be able to do this?
-
- Lee
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