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From: neese@adaptex.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: BACKUP SOFTWARE & SCSI DRIVES
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Date: 11 Apr 90 20:38:00 GMT
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Nf-From: adaptex.UUCP!neese    Apr 11 14:38:00 1990


>]>/* ---------- "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.

Fastback Plus works fine on the 154x also.  But it can be made to work better
with the use of SETSCSI.  

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer
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