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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Kronos tape drive(r)
Message-ID: <16384@estelle.udel.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 90 15:35:25 GMT
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Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
Organization: University of Delaware
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>>Larry:  the CLtd docs imply that QuarterBack can be used with a regular
>>SCSI tape drive; just configure the tape drive as a harddisk.  Since
>>QB talks directly to the .device it will access the tape in a sequential
>>manner (is there any other way?)...  Any opinions? comments?

Well, my comment is that it doesn't work.  I've tried it and Diskcopy won't
hack it.  I've written my own program to read the first block from the
tape drive and I always get error 20. This program reads the hard disk
without any problem.  Soooo..... I suspect that the tape stuff is not
up to snuff unless there is somebody out there who REALLY DOES have it
working.  Maybe it's my tape drive, but I can't tell without somebody
having gotten it working.          -- Darren

P.S., Is there anybody at UDel or nearby with a copy of quarterback I
can borrow?    -- Darren