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- From: rnlee@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Profess'nal Agitator)
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- Subject: Re: More on backup tape drives.
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- Date: 11 Dec 92 21:22:50 GMT
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- In article <71253@cup.portal.com> DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld) writes:
- >To hook up a tape drive to the Amiga you need a SCSI tape drive (QIC or
- >DAT), space inside you machine or an external box, and some software. I've
- >used 2 different drive recently (an Archive 525 meg and a WangDat 2 gig).
- >I just plugged them into my external case with a cable coming from the
- >external port of my SupraWordsync controller and attached the power cord.
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- Is this exactly *all* you need?
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- How do you mount the drive without a handler and mountlist entry?
- Currently, I'm wrestling with BTNtape, but I can't get past what the
- tapemon program claims is a physical tape error.
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- What handler do you use?
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