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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Units
Message-ID: <28554@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 00:32:14 GMT
References: <442@epicb.com>
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In article <442@epicb.com> jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson) writes:
>I am trying to connect a MacPEAK SCSI tape backup unit to an Amiga 3000.
>HDTools doesn't acknowledge the unit.  Has anyone done this?  Do I need to
>create a mountlist for it?  If so, what would the mountlist have to be, and
>how do I get BRU to write to it?  Anything would help.  Thanks.

First, make sure that it is a real SCSI tape drive (QIC). I tried out several
of the MAC tape drives around here - no go. Fred Fish then pointed out that 
some Mac tape drives act almost like slow hard drives. I used HDTools to
inquire & sure enough, I got drive parameters back. Of course they were
a bit bizarre, but it was respoding like a hard drive. The point is that
they didn't use SCSI tape commands, but some subset of SCSI disk commands.

Any authoritative answer out there?

Kent Polk: Southwest Research Institute (512) 522-2882
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