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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!diku!joker
- From: joker@diku.dk (Morten Christian Holmgreen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
- Subject: Re: How to access IBM internal tape drive directly (from inside a program)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.175324.21130@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 17:53:24 GMT
- References: <1gee3kINN79e@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Sender: joker@ask.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 18
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- stanton@haas.berkeley.edu (Richard Stanton) writes:
-
- >I've just installed an IBM internal tape drive in my PS/2. I can now use
- >the accompanying backup program to backup my hard disk, which was the
- >main reason I bought it.
-
- >However, if the backup program can read/write to the tape, why can't I do
- >it directly? IS there any way I can do this from inside a C program,
- >for example?
-
- >Thanks for any information
-
- >Richard Stanton
-
- Haven't tried that one yet, but I suggest getting the technical reference
- guide for the Internal TBU. That should get you on the way.
-
- Christian
-