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From: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BACKUP SOFTWARE & SCSI DRIVES
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Date: 11 Apr 90 08:39:08 GMT
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In article <27800005@adaptex>, neese@adaptex.UUCP writes...

]>/* ---------- "BACKUP SOFTWARE & SCSI DRIVES" ---------- */
]>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.

Sorry not to have seen this earlier.  I use Fastback Plus to
back my SCSI hard drive up to floppy with no problem.  Maybe
it's a matter of the controller, which in my case is a 
Western Digital 7000FASST.

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