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- From: toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
- Subject: Re: Ramfast and Tape Backup units..
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.040841.24422@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:08:41 GMT
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- rwifall@nmsu.edu (Richard J Wifall) writes:
-
- > No kidding? That wasn't my question.. Read it again.. :) I was
- >asking how to get the ramfasst to unwrite protect the tape unit, cause
- >if I can get the tape unit to show up in finder as not write
- >protected, then it won't be write protected in any other gs/os program
- >either.. comprende?
-
- Yep. Call CVT and bitch. Given their current driver scheme, all volumes show
- up as block devices, and real backup programs aren't expecting that. Most of
- them probably expect a SCSITAPE driver like Apple's. Hopefully they can deal
- with something more generic like a character device, and CVT can make a tape
- driver for GS/OS that supports it. There is not a simple solution to your
- problem, and it is up to either Apple (hah) or CVT to do something about it...
-
- Todd Whitesel
- toddpw @ cco.caltech.edu
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