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- From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
- Subject: Re: [SCSI Tape Backup???]
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.224530.13072@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <104015@netnews.upenn.edu> <1993Jan8.171718.1392@netcom.com> <C0M4Kn.ACI@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:45:30 GMT
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- tjb@NeoSoft.com (Timothy J. Bogart) writes:
-
- >Since you admitted you work for exebyte, I guess I can figure out
- >where you got your drivers. 8-)
-
- Most or all of the SCSI tape makers do not make *ANY* drivers and we are no
- exception. This is baecause we are standard via SCSI, and unlike other tape
- manufacturers test our drives *CONSTANTLY* for compatibility with other
- makers. The drivers are the providence of the software makers.
-
- >Can you describe your setup in config.sys and offer any suggestions to
- >those of us having a problem setting up a Wangtek 6130 on a Future
- >Domain card? TIA
-
- Well, first note that boot back to DOS mode to perform backup. This is
- a personal decision. I don't trust the "locked file workaround" for os/2 just
- yet (boy, bet I'll hear about that one :). Also, I am moving towards a
- literal backup system because of difficulties I have described here (a backup
- that literally dumps all the sectors on the drive to tape including the
- partition sector).
- The only tape software I have tried under os/2 2.0 is GNU TAR, and it is well
- documented in the GTAK package on hobbes. It also says that an ADAPTEC 1540
- is all that has been tested using the drivers :(, but I beleive that any
- controller able to run an ASPI mode interface should work.
-
- Here are the relivant sections of CONFIG.SYS:
-
- basedev=aha154x.add --> obtained from ADAPTEC, the ASPI for os/2 driver.
- basedve=scsitape.dmd tape$0 0 s2 --> comes with GTAR
- set tape=+++tape$0
- set tapemode=2 --> sets scsi interface to SCSI-II
-
- I beleive that scsitape.dmd will operate atop any aspi driver, but I'm not
- going to bet the farm on it. Since the full source of GTAR is avalible, it
- should not be too hard to figgure out. Good luck !
-
- [sam]
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