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From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac II backup device - reccomendations?
Keywords: backup tape mac
Message-ID: <106@fishpond.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 88 23:19:12 GMT
References: <159@toybox.UUCP> <4888@dasys1.UUCP> <3218@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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In article <4888@dasys1.UUCP> alexis@dasys1.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>I have several CMS T-60 tape backup units. They are the best backup units
>available for the Macintosh. This is not a simple matter of opinion:

How available is programming information for these?  I am attempting to
interface to the Apple 40SC tape unit connected to non-Mac hardware
and am having fits trying to get it to do something useful.  Apple
obviously knows how they work, but they aren't telling.  They say
to call APDA.  APDA wants to sell me something called a SCSI developers
package, but nobody there seems to know if it contains detailed
information about the SCSI commands accepted by the tape drive.
Either it doesn't accept "standard" SCSI commands or I am doing
something wrong.  In either case, it is frustrating sending SCSI
packits at it "blind" and getting no useful results.

-Fred
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