lk@cbnewsj.ATT.COM (lisa.a.krauth) (10/07/89)
Does anyone know if a SCSI tape drive can be used with the Amiga 2000? If so, is there a driver available,...what would the mountlist entry look like,...etc. Thanks in advance, Lisa Krauth mtuxo!lzatt!lak
a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) (10/07/89)
In Msg-ID: <1241@cbnewsj.ATT.COM>, lk@cbnewsj.ATT.COM
Lisa Krauth writes:
] Does anyone know if a SCSI tape drive can be used with the Amiga
] 2000? If so, is there a driver available,...what would the mountlist
] entry look like,...etc. Thanks in advance,
]
Good question. If you have a generic SCSI tape drive, the chances are
the answer is no. There are no drivers...yet. And thereby hangs a tale.
What is needed is a generic SCSI port which anybody can hang a driver on.
This is slowly coming about. At the time of the 2090, the idea was not
implemented [considered?]. It is imperfectly implemented in the 2090A as
the scsidisk.i|h protocol. I am given to understand it is non-functional
because SCSI error codes are not returned properly. I think that the
protocol is implemented in the 2091, but who has seen one?
So where does that leave us? I think C Ltd. has a tape drive you can use
for backups, if that is your only concern. There is also the VCR-Streamer
due to emerge RSN from the Wedge folks. Myself I want to see a generic
SCSI port for which I can write a CD-ROM driver & a Panasonic3511 driver
& a WORM driver. There are all kinds of neat SCSI devices which the Amiga
should be able to use.
Anybody at CBM want to discuss scsidisk progress?
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