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From: rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: A3070 Tape Drive programming
Message-ID: <102@kas.helios.mn.org>
Date: 22 Jun 91 18:10:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: kas.102
References: <1991Jun19.100002.26682@NCoast.ORG> <1991Jun19.171335.4227@news.media.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Jun19.171335.4227@news.media.mit.edu> masaru@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Masaru Sugai) writes:
>  If AmigaUX is to be release as a software product and A3070 is the only
>officially supported tape driver, many users would be no choice but to buy
>this drive, even though there are no support for AmigaDOS. Methinks the 
	
	Huh? The 3070 works great under AmigaDOS 2.0, and if you have
	Amiga UNIX you should have AmigaDOS 2.0. Look at BRU...

	OK, so you don't like BRU. Well, BRU is using the scsi.device
	driver to do the dirty work. If BRU can do it then other packages
	should be able to do it too.

	Maybe C= could comment officially if the SCSI driver under UNIX
	can handle generic 150M SCSI tape drives? Not neccessarily optimally,
	but will they work at all? How about support for other SCSI
	devices? Is the main SCSI driver written so that subdrivers can
	hook right into it? For Tapes, CD-ROM's, foo and bar SCSI gadgets etc...

		-Rob