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From: ph@cci632.UUCP (Pete Hoch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: SCSI tape devices.  Who gets the driver?
Keywords: Non bootable, SCSI, driver
Message-ID: <18883@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 00:07:40 GMT
Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY
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At work we have a tape drive connected to a Mac II.  We wrote a
driver for it and we link this driver into an application that
reads and writes to the tape drive.

Now some people want to use this tape device as a backup device
too.  However I don't have the time or desire to write a backup
program just for in house use.  Insted I would like to use a
thierd party program with my tape unit and driver.  The question
is how do we make the driver available to a backup program?
Is there even a backup program that uses many tape drivers?  Do
I write an init to load the driver into the system?

All the information I have been able to find involves disk drives.
Any and all help will be most welcome.

Thanks,
Pete Hoch  -  ...!rutgers!rochester!cci632!ph