jtalley@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (James T Talley) (04/02/91)
I'm looking for information on tape backup systems. I bought a Fastback FB120 (QIC-128, 3M MCD/II). I bought it because it was a good price, satisfied my storage needs and because it was reviewed as being "A/UX compatible". It came with zero information on how to install it on an A/UX system. A call (and email) to Fifth Generation Systems has not produced any more information (They say it should work fine if I use the Mac OS backup software, but I can't see leaving the console logged in all night as a normal practice.) I did try a "newconfig tc" thinking that perhaps the support for Apple's 40SC tape backup would also work, but I have not had any success with this so far. If the FB120 cannot be installed on an A/UX system, I need to return it soon and get my money back. Does anyone know for a fact that the FB120 will or will not work with A/UX? Would you care to recommend *your* favorite tape backup system? James Talley talley+@osu.edu
urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) (04/03/91)
In comp.unix.aux, article <1991Apr2.142334.12722@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
jtalley@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (James T Talley) writes:
< I'm looking for information on tape backup systems. I bought a
< Fastback FB120 (QIC-128, 3M MCD/II). I bought it because it was
< a good price, satisfied my storage needs and because it was
< reviewed as being "A/UX compatible".
<
Unfortunately, you need a driver for this.
If you have or can get a data sheet for the drive and can answer some
more-or-less stupid questions, it's easy (given source code) to extend the tc
driver.
Said source code is available on the A/UX device driver development disks.
Available from APDA, though I don't know if 2.0.1 is already available -- the
January APDAlog says it isn't. (I could get by without the documentation;
Apple: can't you make the disks available for FTP or something?)
< A call (and email) to Fifth Generation Systems has not
< produced any more information (They say it should work fine if I
< use the Mac OS backup software, but I can't see leaving the
That's only true if you shutdown A/UX and backup your partitions whole.
This is not a solution, it's several additional big problems like, what if
you only want one corrupted file? What if your HD crashes and you'll have to
get by with a smaller disk?
< If the FB120 cannot be installed on an A/UX system
It can. Given the appropriate drivers; either see above or kick FWB some
more. If they say "A/UX compatible" then not having an A/UX driver means that
either the revier, or the FWB people, or both, didn't know zilch about A/UX.
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