Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a186
From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drive
Message-ID: <570@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 89 02:11:18 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In Msg-ID: <1241@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>, lk@cbnewsj.ATT.COM
 Lisa Krauth writes:
] Does anyone know if a SCSI tape drive can be used with the Amiga
] 2000? If so, is there a driver available,...what would the mountlist
] entry look like,...etc.  Thanks in advance,
]
   Good question. If you have a generic SCSI tape drive, the chances are
 the answer is no. There are no drivers...yet. And thereby hangs a tale.
 What is needed is a generic SCSI port which anybody can hang a driver on.
 This is slowly coming about. At the time of the 2090, the idea was not
 implemented [considered?]. It is imperfectly implemented in the 2090A as
 the scsidisk.i|h protocol. I am given to understand it is non-functional
 because SCSI error codes are not returned properly. I think that the
 protocol is implemented in the 2091, but who has seen one?
   So where does that leave us? I think C Ltd. has a tape drive you can use
 for backups, if that is your only concern. There is also the VCR-Streamer
 due to emerge RSN from the Wedge folks. Myself I want to see a generic
 SCSI port for which I can write a CD-ROM driver & a Panasonic3511 driver
 & a WORM driver. There are all kinds of neat SCSI devices which the Amiga
 should be able to use.
   Anybody at CBM want to discuss scsidisk progress?
   <-Harvey

    "A sadist is someone who is kind to a masochist"
      Harvey Taylor      Meta Media Productions
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