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- From: jarman@ee.ualberta.ca (Andrew Jarman)
- Subject: Tape backups - what controllers?
- Pate: ee.ualberta.ca!jarman
- Message-ID: <jarman.721427742@ee.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:35:42 GMT
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- Here is a good mindbender for anyone out there who has a tape backup.
- If anyone can shed some light, or at least let me know what they have
- as far as hardware, it will be greately appreciated.
-
- What I have: I have 2 60Meg tape units purchased from Sysgen (Reliant)
- The markings on the drive read "CaliPer CP-60B". I suspect Sysgen
- purchases these drives from someone else, but who? Anyone know?
- One drive has a sticker on the front that says: QTD-60i. Both units
- are the same.
-
- One controller card is an EV-831. I have no documentation for this card
- anywhere. The other controller is from Sysgen. I have no detailed info
- on this card either (only "set these jumpers for this drive, etc...")
-
- I suspect the drives are really Tecmar QT-60i (or very similar) because
- of the label on the one unit. These drives are pretty old, by the way,
- at least 3 years.
-
- I have an old copy of Sytos for DOS, and I can upgrade for $90 U.S.
- I found out from an associate who seems to remember that the EV-831 is
- a slow card, (ie. had to add wait states to run on an 8Mhz bus). Is this
- true?
- What I want to do is this. I want to use Sytos, since I can get it cheap.
- It would be nice to use these drives, since I already have them. I need
- to find a decent controller. Finding a compressing controller would be nice,
- but any info would be helpful. Specifically:
- 1) Does anyone know who makes the EV-831 board. Phone number?
- 2) Does anyone have a Tecmar drive or have a phone number for them?
- 3) Does anyone have any specs for either of the above units?
- 4) The Sytos manual says the controller for a QT-60i is a PC-36 or a
- Tecmar QIC-02. Does anyone know anything about these cards?
-
- Another approach..
- I got a letter from Sysgen offering me an upgrade to a newer 120MB drive
- for $200 U.S. They will include Central Point Backup for DOS/Windows. I
- can get is cheaper with no software. It uses the QIC-80 format (not
- supported under Sytos - too bad). I know that IBM makes a program
- called PM Tape. IBM's support line didn't have any info on the formats
- supported. Does anyone know if IBM supports a QIC-80 format. If so,
- then I can get PM-Tape for $148 and a 120MB Drive for ~$200. Otherwise,
- I'll stay with the same drive I have (60M), upgrade to Sytos Plus for OS/2
- and try to find a controller.
-
- Any comments about PM-Tape? WIll id backup open (system) files. Can it
- be run across the network?
-
- If anyone can shed any light, please EMAIL me. I will summarize if anything
- useful comes out.
-
- Thanks a lot!
-
-
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