Path: utzoo!mnetor!intacc!mann From: mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: tapestreamer Summary: No tape drives for A/UX Message-ID: <1991Jun2.222552.28785@intacc.uucp> Date: 2 Jun 91 22:25:52 GMT References: <686@unidoct.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de> Organization: Inter/Access Artists' Centre Toronto Lines: 39 In article d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes: >> sudke@unidoct.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (Hilmar Sudke) writes: > > 1. are there any tapestreamers (execept Apple's) running under > A/UX 2.0.1 and > >The built-in drivers also support Archive and Viper drives (unofficially) > >Micronet sells TEAC 150MB drives with drivers. They don't sell the drivers >separately, but Tony Cooper (who has writeen the drivers) have made them >available for ftp - with a time-limit built-into the driver. Just scan the >backlog of this group and you'll find the ftp name, which i forget :-) I called Micronet to order one of their 150MB drives with A/UX driver. Micronet does NOT presently sell tape drives with A/UX drivers, except for their DAT drives. Although they did purchase Tony's driver software, they are not shipping it, and have no plans to in the very near future. They claim the software does not work properly, probably due in part to bugs in the A/UX SCSI manager. Supposedly, extensive cpio or tar backups and restores are unstable, and dd is the only reliable method. The version of Tony's software that they have is several months old, so maybe there have been some fixes since then. Since Apple has discontinued the SC40 tape drive, there are NO tape drives available that support A/UX (or rather, A/UX doesn't support tape backup), except for the DAT models. This really pisses me off. I've got a 650MB drive and there's no way in hell I'm going to back it up onto floppies. Also, there's a bunch of UNIX software I need that only comes on QIC-format tape cartriges. The fact that A/UX doesn't support non-Apple hard drives (without using SilverLining, etc) is inexcusable. The fact that it doesn't support non-Apple tape drives under any circumstance, and that Apple doesn't even make tape drives anymore, is just plain stupid. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Jeff Mann Inter/Access Artists' Computer Centre, Toronto [416] 535-8601 | | intacc!mann@cs.toronto.edu Matrix Artists' BBS: [416] 535-7598 2400 8N1 | | ...uunet!mnetor!intacc!mann mann@intacc.uucp [416] 535-1443 Telebit 8N1 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-