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From: etac@levels.sait.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A3070 Tape Backup Unit
Message-ID: <16149.2801f878@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 9 Apr 91 07:53:04 GMT
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In article <879@DIALix.oz.au>, johnv@DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven) writes:
>
> G'Day,
>     I am tossing up whether to buy a Commodore A3070 Tape unit,
>     ....................
>     What is less than clear is what do I need to use this under
> AmigaDOS.

These is no software supplied by Commodore  with either the A3000 or
the A3070 for mounting a TAPE filesystem under AmigaDOS.

> ...... documentation supplied with the unit is *sparse* (to
> put it mildly :) ), consiting of details about setting SCSI
> adddresses, Terminators etc.

Too true!!!

>     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.

I've been told that you can use it with BRU by changing the order of
devices in one of its config file,  Shift the TAPE to the front of the
list.  Haven't tried it myself

>     BTNTape Handler from Fish 392.

Bob Rethemeyer has posted a recent version of this to comp.sources.amiga
As yet I haven't checked it out, but I will soon. I'm hoping it
allows you to mount the TAPE drive using a Sequencial filesystem.
That ought to be a bit more useful than just being used as a backup &
Restore facility.

>     MWTape from Fish 445
>     TAR from Fish 445
>
>     Which one of these will do the job?? (if any :()
>
> John Verhoeven (johnv@DIALiz.oz.au)

Andrew Chalmers

Digital Communications Group D.C.G.
University of South Australia.