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From: barrett@ektools.UUCP (Chris Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Stream tape backup
Message-ID: <1942@ektools.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 12:48:41 GMT
References: <120@snll-arpagw.UUCP> <17182@louie.udel.EDU>
Sender: barrett@ektools (Chris Barrett)
Reply-To: barrett@ektools.UUCP (Chris Barrett)
Organization: Eastman Kodak, Dept. 47, Rochester NY
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>In article <120@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes:
>>Does anybody know of a SCSI stream tape backup system that works on the
>>Amiga?  
>
I have gotten my 60 Mb SCSI tape drive to work with the C.Ltd SCSI interface
and their SCSIDos 3.n.  I don't have it written as a DOS driver yet, but I 
what I do have is a TCopy, TErase, TRewind, TDir, TMount, and TDisMount.  I
use my own layout on the tape, it's not compatible with tar, I'm planning that
for the next version, along with a tape.driver for DOS.  If you don't have
a C.Ltd interface, then these won't be of much use.  The TCopy command is
not very fast also, about 1.5 hours for 10 Mb, don't really know why yet, 
I'm still learning about how the drives work and what SCSI can really do.
If any one else can supply me with code on how to read a tar format, other
than the unix man page, I would appreciate it.  If interested, drop me a line.

Chris


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