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From: dclemans@mentor.com (Dave Clemans @ APD x1292)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Tape backup
Message-ID: <1989Oct4.171329.8286@mentor.com>
Date: 4 Oct 89 17:13:29 GMT
References: <1138@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>
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From article <1138@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>, by rwa@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Ross Alexander):
> lasse@me.chalmers.se (Lars Persson) writes:
>>Does anyone out in th jungle know anything about code for
>>one of these tapestreamers that are connected to the FDC?
> 
> I hear, from some hardware oriented types, that the FDC in the Atari
> ST is not up to the job.  Any counter-examples out there?  Anyone
> tried to get a SCSI drive tied onto the ACSI buss ??  I too am being
> driven to distraction by backup issues.
> 
> 	Ross

There's no problem using an ST acsi->scsi interface card to drive
a tape drive (at least for the ICD and the Berkeley Microsystems cards);
ICD even sells a pre-packaged unit for the ST (I think it uses the Teac 150MB
mechanism).  To use them in a native mode under Minix all you need is
an appropriate driver; as is they could make an image-mode dump of Minix
partitions under TOS.

dgc