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- From: bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis)
- Subject: Re: Using on old Sun 60Mb tape drive on a Mac
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.065742.28881@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <92123020195100348@hjwmac.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:57:42 GMT
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- harry@hjwmac.DIALix.oz.au writes:
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-
- >I have an old Sun 60Mb tape drive which uses a SCSI-QIC?? interface card
- >and an Archive
- >tape drive. I tried using Retrospect 1.3 but it fails to find a tape drive
- >on the bus
- >that it understands. Does it do some sort of SCSI inquiry to determine the
- >drive type
- >and then uses an appropriate driver ? How can I convince Retrospect that
- >there is a
- >taep drive at a specified address ? BTW I've used SCSIProbe 3.4 to
- >determine that there
- >is some sort of SCSI device at the nominated address (even though it can't
- >determine
- >what it is ). Is there some other utility that I can use to backup my hard
- >drive to
- >this device ?
-
- >Regards,
- >Harry WERKMAN
- >harry@hjwmac.DIALix.oz.au
-
- I'm using FastBack with an Archive VIPER 60 on my SE. Works fine.
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