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- From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Supported tape drives
- Keywords: Tape DAT
- Message-ID: <726580508rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 11:55:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.162216.8458@dbased.nuo.dec.com> <1993Jan8.143146.23709@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <1ikkdeINNt8e@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1ikkdeINNt8e@shelley.u.washington.edu> tad@wrq.com (Tad Marshall) writes:
- >In <1993Jan6.162216.8458@dbased.nuo.dec.com> coffler@dbased.enet.dec.com (Jeff Coffler) writes:
- >>I note that the supported hardware list only shows one tape drive (a DAT
- >>drive) for SCSI tape backup.
- >
- >The latest hardware compatibility list (1292hw.txt, 1292hw.doc) lists three:
- > Archive Python DAT (Maynstream 1300DAT)
- > Hewlett-Packard JetStor 2000 (HP 35470A)
- > Hewlett-Packard JetStor 5000 (HP 35480A)
-
- Why does every tape drive need to be supported? Why doesn't the tape
- support - for example - work with any SCSI-2 device?
-
- For OS/2 2.0 I have one single SCSI tape base device driver which
- works with any kind of SCSI or SCSI-2 tape drive. Then I use GNU tar
- to access the SCSI tape drive and can thus even exchange tapes with
- Unix workstations. Further more, this driver is independent of the
- used SCSI host adapter as it works on top of the controller's base
- device driver.
-
- Not being able to access my tape drive (which works not only with OS/2
- 2.0 but also with any current Unix system) is one of the main reasons
- why I don't try working with NT.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
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