tapestreamer

[Jeff Mann]

In article <D88-JWA.91May31185017 at hemul.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa at hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>> sudke at unidoct.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (Hilmar Sudke) writes:
>
>     1. are there any tapestreamers (execept Apple's) running under 
>	A/UX 2.0.1 and 
>
>The built-in drivers also support Archive and Viper drives (unofficially)
>
>Micronet sells TEAC 150MB drives with drivers. They don't sell the drivers
>separately, but Tony Cooper (who has writeen the drivers) have made them
>available for ftp - with a time-limit built-into the driver. Just scan the
>backlog of this group and you'll find the ftp name, which i forget :-)

I called Micronet to order one of their 150MB drives with A/UX driver.
Micronet does NOT presently sell tape drives with A/UX drivers, except
for their DAT drives.  Although they did purchase Tony's driver
software, they are not shipping it, and have no plans to in the very
near future.  They claim the software does not work properly, probably
due in part to bugs in the A/UX SCSI manager.  Supposedly, extensive
cpio or tar backups and restores are unstable, and dd is the only
reliable method.  The version of Tony's software that they have is
several months old, so maybe there have been some fixes since then.

Since Apple has discontinued the SC40 tape drive, there are NO tape
drives available that support A/UX (or rather, A/UX doesn't support tape
backup), except for the DAT models.  This really pisses me off.  I've
got a 650MB drive and there's no way in hell I'm going to back it up
onto floppies.  Also, there's a bunch of UNIX software I need that only
comes on QIC-format tape cartriges.  The fact that A/UX doesn't support
non-Apple hard drives (without using SilverLining, etc) is inexcusable.
The fact that it doesn't support non-Apple tape drives under any
circumstance, and that Apple doesn't even make tape drives anymore, is
just plain stupid.

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