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From: johnv@DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: A3070 Tape Backup Unit
Message-ID: <879@DIALix.oz.au>
Date: 4 Apr 91 09:58:06 GMT
Reply-To: johnv@DIALix.UUCP (John Verhoeven)
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Organization: DIALix Services, Perth Western Australia
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G'Day,
    I am tossing up whether to buy a Commodore A3070 Tape unit,
mainly because the price here in Australia can't be beaten by
any other Amiga specific combination.  This unit will be used on
a A3000 running Kickstart 36.303, Workbench 36.102.

    What is less than clear is what do I need to use this under
AmigaDOS.  My contact at the shop where I am purchasing it tells
me that the documentation supplied with the unit is *sparse* (to
put it mildly :) ), consiting of details about setting SCSI
adddresses, Terminators etc.

    All I want to do is on a weekly basis dump all my partitions
to a single tape.  I currently have 4 partitions totalling 50
Megabytes.


Software possibilities:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    BRU & HDBackup.
    BTNTape Handler from Fish 392.
    MWTape from Fish 445
    TAR from Fish 445


    Which one of these will do the job?? (if any :()

John Verhoeven (johnv@DIALiz.oz.au)