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From: jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BACKUP SOFTWARE & SCSI DRIVES
Message-ID: <6050@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 90 09:05:59 GMT
References: <126@fryeten.uucp>
Organization: Harvey Mudd Smoking Hole in the Ground, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <126@fryeten.uucp> doug@fryeten.uucp (Front Office Vermin) writes:
>Can someone suggest a backup software package that is comparable to Fastback
>in speed and economy of space that will work with SCSI drives.  Fastback
>doesn't seem to like SCSI drives and their tech support people have confirmed
>this.  It has something to do with the speed of the SCSI drive and DMA.  They
>weren't too specific.

I have been successfully using Fastback+ 2.09 with my ST02/ST296N
combination for some time.  When installing, it crashed the system on the
medium DMA test, but I have been restoring on High DMA without problems.  I
haven't tried backing up my HD at High, though.

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Jason Merrill				jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu