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From: duckie@cbnewsj.att.com (john.c.mc millan)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: DOS versus SCSI tape software -- help!
Summary: What works with WD-FASST2 (and WANGTEK 2150S?)
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.195941.25813@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 19:59:41 GMT
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'Assembled my 1st home computer, intending to run DOS and UN*X:
    386/33 + WD/FASST2 + Imprimis/334MB + (borrowed) Wangtek 2150S. 
(I chose WD-FASST2 for intended-compatibility with other H/W
instead of preferred HA, an Adaptec 1542B.)
 
I'm a UN*X kinda guy, with little DOS expertise.  I'm not finding
any uninterested-parties with correct knowledge of DOS S/W that
will work with this WD/FASST2 HA and drive.

One friend recommended PCTools: on my examination, it didn't seem
to support SCSI tapes.

CDP -- providers of part of FASST2 ROMs and S/W -- mentioned Sytos:
I examined a friend's Syplus package -- which certainly mentioned
Wangteks -- but it didn't appear to support the SCSI Wangteks.

Perhaps I'm not reading these packages correctly.  Regardless,
does anyone KNOW of DOS packages that:
	- Service SCSI tapes -- I presume the Wangtek manufacture
		is irrelevant -- hung off a WD-FASST2 controller.
	- Package the data in a 'cpio' compatible form to facilitate
		data exchanges with UN*X.

For the moment, I'd like to ignore the options of DOS-emulations
under UN*X.  Sure... at some point that's handy, but it's not what
I want to depend on.


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Thanks for any help!		John McMillan -- DOS survivor, if barely