mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) (10/22/90)
I am planning to get some peripherals for my new IIci through mail order. Hard Drives International has a 660 Meg micropolis hard drive for $2099. Does anyone know whether this can be used with A/UX? Has anyone seen a better deal in this size of drive? I am also looking for a tape drive and serial port board. I have seen Teac 150 meg tape drives for around $700 - same questions as above. Serial boards - I don't even know where to get one, much less the price. Sorry if this has all been talked about before - if so, could someone mail me a summary? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Jeff Mann Inter/Access Artists' Computer Centre, Toronto [416] 535-8601 | | ...uunet!mnetor!intacc!mann intacc!mann@nexus.yorku.ca mann@intacc.uucp | | The Matrix Artists' Computer Network BBS: [416] 535-7598 2400 8N1 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) (10/24/90)
In article <whatever> mann@intacc.UUCP (Jeff Mann) writes: >[...] Hard Drives International has a 660 Meg micropolis hard drive for $2099. >Does anyone know whether this can be used with A/UX? Has anyone seen a >better deal in this size of drive? See my followup to the query about Fujitsu drives. >I am also looking for a tape drive and serial port board. I have seen >Teac 150 meg tape drives for around $700 - same questions as above. >Serial boards - I don't even know where to get one, much less the price. No Teac that I know of is shipping with A/UX support. (Of course, you can use FasTape to back up an entire volume, but that's a lousy option). MicroNet has drivers, which they got from Tony Cooper. They're a later version of the Beta drivers he mentioned on the net many months ago. If you ask, they'll give them to you (if you buy their drive, which is not very expensive, but a bit more than $700 depending on where you get it), but they die on large backups with either tar or cpio. I suspect that this could be because of bugs in tar and cpio, not the drivers, but I don't know. They're still useful, though- you can use dump.bsd and restore, which are (I think) nicer than cpio and tar anyway. FWB claims to have support for tape (Teac, DAT, or both). I don't know if they work, since I've never seen them. As for the serial boards, I have two Taniwha Systems CommCards. They're excellent. They have special support for UUCP 'g' protocol, which makes them especially nice if you're UUCPing over a high-speed modem. I know they can't deal with 4 57.6kbit/sec connections, all active at once, but this is unlikely to be a problem for anybody (except for one guy I met who wanted to run X over SLIP...) To get one, email Paul Campbell- he's on the net, at root@taniwha.uucp. (I think unisoft!taniwha!root will work for stupid mailers.) --- Alexis Rosen Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix {cmcl2,apple}!panix!alexis