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From: lray@CIVILGATE.CE.UIUC.EDU (Leland Ray)
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Subject: Miscellaneous questions
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Date: 30 Dec 89 21:39:26 GMT
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That reminds me to ask a few miscellaneous questions:

1. I need to read a tape written with wbak on a non-Apollo machine. I
   don't want to "dearchive" the tape file, I just need to use a tape
   drive to read it that happens to be connected to another machine.
   Once read, I had planned to ftp it to an Apollo, and use the
   -stdin option on rbak to recover the data.

   I hear these tapes are ANSI labelled. Could someone send me enough
   information that I can get the file off the tape?


2. Is SR10.2.p presently shipping? If not, is there an expected release
   date?

3. Do the scsi_$ routines shipped with GPIO at SR10.2 also work with
   the scsi port on the WD disk controller?

4. Is there a public domain device driver available for a AT bus
   parallel port add on (like the Apollo SPE board)? The quality of the
   driver

Thanks for answers in advance.


Just spendin' my days,                  Leland Ray
                                        Systems Administrator
  Soakin' in them cathode rays.         UIUC - Dept. Civil Engineering
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