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From: david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: ARCHIVE SCSI Tape backup utility sought
Keywords: Archive Viper Tape Streamer MSDOS QSV Adaptec SCSI QIC02
Message-ID: <19@talgras.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 90 15:09:59 GMT
References: <1070@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Reply-To: david@talgras.UUCP (David Hoopes)
Organization: Tallgrass Technologies Inc.
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In article <1070@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> robl@idca.tds.philips.nl writes:
>
>Is there a utility or device driver (MSDOS) to use the tape as a 'raw'
>device, like UNIX does?
>If that would be possible, I could read/write CPIO or TAR tapes under
>MSDOS. I would very much appreciate to have such program.
>
>I would like to hear from every one who has any info on this matter.
>

We have a product called OEM_TSR that can do what you want for some of
our tape drives.  It is a tsr.  Once it is loaded into memory an 
application program can open the tape drive with a standard open command
and write to it as if it where a file.  It has some limitations.  All 
reads and writes must be in blocks of 8k.  But if you make your cpio or
tar tape with an 8k blocking factor you should be able to read them back
on the dos side ( of course you have to write your own DOS version of tar
or cpio to get your data back.)   

We have versions for our FS-150 (QIC-150) and our FS-1300 (1.3g Dat 
drive).  I don't know the pricing.  Call the number in my signature and
ask for sales to get details.



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