Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!sdy
From: sdy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ugly Bag of Mostly Water)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: more DiskFit/Hypertape questions
Keywords: diskfit, hypertape, dc2000
Message-ID: <1255@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 89 18:56:24 GMT
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ok, I finally got to play with my hypertape this weekend and it seems to work
fine with DiskFit 1.4 (using the DataStream driver and DataForm) except when I
was backing up to tape it tried to write when the tape was full and instead of
asking for a new tape for the smartset it told me to eject and then insert tape
#1. When I did so it rescanned and tried to write again, noticed that the tape
was full and failed when trying to update the smartset info. I've never seen
this happen when I backed up to disk, is this normal? Having only 1 tape
I didn't pursue this any further.  

Which brings me to another question -- I've been patiently waiting for my
DiskFit 1.5 upgrade announcement, was every registered owner supposed to get
one? Does anyone know if 1.5 will ignore MultiDisk partitions just like the
HDpartitions were ignored?

Another nit is that when I tried to format my tape using DataForm it got to the
initialization portion and seemingly hung -- no light no movement just the
initializing message. Any mouse click spun it for a second and then quit -- I
finally ejected, quit, and restarted and then just initialized the tape since
it had already finished the format.  If it makes a difference it was a
preformatted tape.

And lastly where do people purchace their DC2000 tapes and what kind of prices
do you pay -- they seem to be $20-$25 locally.

Oh this is on an 2meg, 512ke upgraded w/scsi port, cms 60meg external, running
release 5 (finder 6.0 system 4.2 ??).

steven yee

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