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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: AUX... Should I?
Keywords: AUX, Unix, MAC
Message-ID: <3ol$e2.xd9@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 14 Aug 90 16:15:56 GMT
References: <25@ws7m.UUCP> <43789@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.sys.mac.system, article <43789@apple.Apple.COM>,
  chuq@Apple.COM (Spot the Wonder Dog) writes:
< 
< Scanners -- no. Scanner software likes to go and play directly with the
< hardware, which is a no-no in protected systems like Unix. If/when scanner
< manufacturers update their software to play by the rules of the SCSI manager
< they'll probably work. (this goes for the Apple scanner as well)
< 
More to the point, they use the SCSI Manager, which isn't implemented under
A/UX for some very good reasons.
Unfortunately, there's no /dev/scsi (yet?), and the new SCSI Manager which
had been going to be in System 7.0 and which would have been rather easy to
port into A/UX, seems to have been scrapped/delayed/whatever.

< Tapes: if there's a driver for it. Apple tape drive works. Other
< manufacturers have drivers -- call them and check.
< 
Reportedly, the A/UX 2.0 device drivers' development kit will feature a tape
driver which groks about all "normal" (read: non-Apple) tapes out there.

Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that stuff like Retrospect will work. It
won't -- you'd need a special A/UX version.

Right now, you can't backup MacOS partitions under A/UX.
("dd </dev/dsk/cXd0s30 >/dev/rmt/tcY bs=1024k" is not considered a backup.)

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