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From: griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu (Danny Griffin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Cheap tape backup for the Bridgeboard? and maybe the Amiga too?
Keywords: tape backup Bridgeboard
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.172846.583@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 7 Jun 91 17:28:46 GMT
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>In article <1991Jun6.123915.25499@ns.network.com> guy@ns.network.com (Guy D'Andrea) writes:

>I just got the latest CompuAdd catalog last week and saw that they carry their
>own name on a tape drive (Mountain makes it though) for $269.  It can handle
>40/60/120MB tapes.  Now I called to see what interface board I would need and
>the salesman said that you need to buy a special cable from them ($6.98) and
>then you plug the cable from the floppy controller to floppy A:, then B: and  
>then onto the tape backup unit!  Thats it!  I'm sure that it would not be all  
>that fast since it uses the floppy controller, but you can always tell it to 
>backup your system and walk away for a while..

First, they do not require special cables.  They can use any old floppy
drive cable.  Also, you can purchase the mountain drive mail order for
~$230 - 240.  I am using one with 2 floppies and a 4 floppy controller
on my 386 (don't ask) ;-)  Mountain also sells a separate tape drive
controller card that you can use instead of a floppy.  I think they run
about $60.  Finally, there are some backup utilities that will do automatic
backups in the background I believe.  We got one called HDBackup with
our last Bernoulli box, but it won't work with a network so I couldn't
use it.


-- 
Dan Griffin
griffin@frith.egr.msu.edu