Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!sbi!zeus! From: nee@cf_su14.Sbi.Com (Robert Nee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: CMS 60/120MB tape drives Message-ID: <174@cf_su20.cf_su10.Sbi.COM> Date: 13 Feb 91 14:05:15 GMT References: <30530@shamash.cdc.com> <26853@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Feb12.190023.15287@javelin.es.com> Sender: news@cf_su10.Sbi.COM Reply-To: nee@cf_su14.Sbi.Com (Robert Nee) Organization: Salomon Brothers, NY Lines: 11 ath: cf_su10!cf_su14!nee > I love your review of the CMS tape archive unit. Could you also comment > on any possibility of writing UNIX tar tapes directly from the MS-DOS > shell. I would like to backup files on my home PC and read the TAR tape > at work on my favorite workstation (like SUN, MIPS, Apollo...). Thank you. I know that CMS markets drivers for Unix and Xenix machines. This would allow you to use TAR with the CMS tape drives under unix/xenix. I don't know if they offer something similar for MS-DOS but I will look and post if I find something. Robert F. Nee