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From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Tape backup
Summary: my BMS 60 Meg cartridge tape work
Message-ID: <809@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 89 03:02:04 GMT
References: <1138@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> <1989Oct4.171329.8286@mentor.com>
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In article <1989Oct4.171329.8286@mentor.com>, dclemans@mentor.com (Dave Clemans @ APD x1292) writes:
> 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

I have an archieve 60 meg streamer which uses SCSI and a simple driver
patterned after stwini.c.  It doesn't want to stream under minix but
works in chunks.  (It streams great under TOS).

Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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