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- From: ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch)
- Subject: HELP!!!!! TAPE!!!! BACKUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.165959.7556@netcom.com>
- Organization: UESPA
- References: <1992Dec25.052004.3229@psych.toronto.edu> <137610016@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:59:59 GMT
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- In <137610016@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> mic@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Clarke) writes:
-
- >When I bought my copy of NDW 2.0, there was a mail-in card for a
- >driver to support a Colorado Memory Systems tape for backup. Yes, NDW
- >2.0 can support a CMS Jumbo, but you have to obtain the special driver
- >software from Symantec. The standard NDW 2.0 floppies that come in
- >the box do not support the CMS Jumbo.
-
- That's weird. When I bought 2.0 as an upgrade from Norton, it
- included support for my Jumbo. I didn't specifically ask for such
- support, there were no extra driver disks to install or anything.
-
- On the other hand, the backup program is so unreliable as to be
- unusable. Too many undocumented "features", too difficult to use to
- backup multiple drives, too many damn bugs. Anybody know a
- tape-oriented backup program for windows that doesn't suck?
-
- What I'd really like is the Unix solution: a device driver that makes
- the tape drive look like a disk drive. (Believe me, I've used it, it
- works.) Anybody know of such a driver for Qic drives? Anybody wanna
- write one?
- --
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- ergo@netcom.com Isaac Rabinovitch
- {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo Santa Cruz, CA
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