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From: mwilson@crash.cts.com (Marc Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Ampro Little Board w/Hard Disk
Message-ID: <1645@crash.cts.com>
Date: 24 Feb 90 11:20:38 GMT
References: <2564@sactoh0.UUCP> <1574@crash.cts.com> <2589@sactoh0.UUCP> <1616@crash.cts.com> <WJC.90Feb22191955@hoswjc.ho5cad.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: mwilson@crash.cts.com (Marc Wilson)
Organization: San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, CA.
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In article <WJC.90Feb22191955@hoswjc.ho5cad.ATT.COM> william_j_carpenter@ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) writes:

>How much trouble would it be to get the Little Board SCSI to work with
>a SCSI tape drive?  I'm sort of naive on the subject, but I reckon
>after you have the SCSI adaptor, it's mostly a matter of software.
>Has it already been done?

     There is software available from Ampro to do backups to a tape drive
interfaced over the SCSI bus.  I dunno how well it works; I haven't tried it
'cause I don't have a tape drive.

     If you want random access, I'd have to say no.  Streaming tape?  Almost
certainly.

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