Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!chip From: chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Using DC6250's in an archive 2150S/E Keywords: archive tape backup scsi qic02 Message-ID: <1457@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Date: 3 Aug 90 00:35:14 GMT References: <3689@wb3ffv.ampr.org> <1659@ispi.COM> Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin, TX Lines: 20 In article tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) writes: >On rewind, the old drive will bomb with an error if it finds it has been >rewinding for > 700'. This of course does not really affect Unix. It blows >SYTOS out of the water, unfortuneatly. Yeah...well, these are the guys who ship XENIX drivers which hang the entire system for the duration of a tape rewind. Whose ioctl's are totally incompatible with what everybody else in the world uses. Who wouldn't provide the information on the ioctl's to do a rewind or reten, even under nondisclosure. (It took less time to crank up adb to get my answers than claw my way up the management chain.) I was very glad when SCO started providing native support for the Tecmar QIC-02. Oh yeah...the Sytos backup software was bundled free with the drivers. That's still overpriced. But boy...it sure had pretty menus. -- Chip Rosenthal | You aren't some icon carved out chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM | of soap, sent down here to clean Unicom Systems Development, 512-482-8260 | up my reputation. -John Hiatt