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- From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: SPARC compatible tape units?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.134955.11241@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 13:49:55 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.164235.10867@comp.lancs.ac.uk> <1992Aug20.104745.22330@spectrum.xerox.com> <1992Aug21.011347.28034@kei.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
- Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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- In article <1992Aug21.011347.28034@kei.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> jeff@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp writes:
- >In article <1992Aug20.104745.22330@spectrum.xerox.com> braven@rx.xerox.com (Brian Raven) writes:
- >
- > >>>I would like to get a tape drive for a 486/50 which can read and write
- > >>>SPARC 150 MB tapes. Is there such a thing? If so, a name and model
- > >>>number would be good. Perhaps even a cool ultra-cheap discount
- > >>>mail-order place that sells them. Any experiences are also
- > >>>interesting.
- > >>
- > >>Well I connected a SPARC 150MB external streamer (archive viper 150) to my PC
- > >>via an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller and can extract data of the tape using
- > >>ASPITAR or SYTOS.
- > >>
- > >>Davei
- >
- >Just to be clear about what it is that I orginally wanted to do. I
- >need something, anything, that will let me read and write SPARC
- >*format* tapes. Basically this will be used as a file transfer media.
- >Actually, I just assumed that 150MB would be the most available
- >format. Any size over about 60MB would be fine.
-
- >Can I assume that ASPITAR writes with suitable format and block size
- >such that my Sparc can read it?
-
- Yes
-
- >vice versa?
-
- Yes
-
- >Is SYTOS required?
-
- No
-
- >Are
- >ASPITAR and SYTOS are PC programs?
-
- Yes
-
- Davei (davei@lancaster.ac.uk)
-