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- From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
- Newsgroups: misc.wanted,comp.infosystems,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: SCSI card, SCSI 150mb QIC-150 tape drive, SCSI Software *FOR MSDOS*???
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.091324.29992@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 09:13:24 GMT
- References: <1992Sep02.142126.28258@mjbtn.jobsoft.com> <PZS.92Sep9105341@ficus.webo.dg.com>
- Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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- In article <PZS.92Sep9105341@ficus.webo.dg.com> pzs@ficus.webo.dg.com (Peter Z. Simpson) writes:
- >>>>>> On Wed, 02 Sep 1992 14:21:26 GMT, root@mjbtn.jobsoft.com (Mark J. Bailey [ADMIN]) said:
-
- > I use the Adaptec 1542B, an Archive Viper 150MB SCSI drive and the
- >ASPIBIN.ZIP software from SIMTEL-20 (in PD1:<MSDOS.DSKUTL>).
-
- Same setup as mine.
-
- >The good
- >news is that the 1542B also supports my SCSI hard drive and my SCSI
- >CDROM as well as my floppies. The bad news is that you need to buy
- >Adaptec's ASPI4DOS.SYS at $50 or so (their part number ASW-1410).
-
- ASPI4DOS.SYS is included withe the Adaptec if you buy the 'kit'. It can also
- be found (somewhat dodgy) on some archive sites.
-
- > This setup allows you to me to do TAR tape transfers between my
- >UNIX system and my PC. Would probably also work with your 525MB tape
- >drive.
-
- Unfortunately I don't find ASPIBIN to clever for doing regular system
- backups etc. Nice for the UNIX transfer though.
-
- Has anyone seen tape backup software with a Windows i/f ? If so, can I
- have your verdict please ? I have seen Sytos for Windows advertised but
- is it just like the DOS version ?
-
- Davei
-