goldfarb@hcx9.UCF.EDU (05/26/89)
<awaiting more flames...> Irwin Magnetics, a Division of Cipher Data Products, seems to have the best all-around tape backup devices for Macintoshes. However, regarding A/UX support for the 5080 drive, I must be the object of a giant practical joke by Irwin because everybody else seems to be able to buy A/UX software and I don't! They've agreed to give me a beta release of the A/UX drivers and utilities for testing and they've warned me about data loss, etc. etc. etc. WHERE IS EVERYBODY GETTING THEIR COMMERCIAL RELEASES OF THIS STUFF? ARE THERE *two* IRWIN MAGNETICSES? A while back, in another message thread (A/UX on third-party drives...), I wrote: <bla, bla, bla> local dealer and told them to do the work of calling Irwin to smoke out the information. The response was that although there is no software support for A/UX at present, it is being worked on. To which I received the following impassioned response: Say WHAT????? ... They now have a 120MB unit which works at about 4MB/min. I have used this device under A/UX- they wrote their own driver (the only way to do it). It is really nice software- if you invoke it interactively, it has a real Mac user interface, with powerful selection capabilities (file name, date, last backup time, etc. etc. matching), but it can also be invoked from a shell <bla, bla, bla> Another response from elsewhere corroborated this opinion (although the above opinion was expressed several times by its author, which might have confused the issue). So tell me....where is everyone getting this stuff and why don't the Irwin software people (the horse's mouth, so to speak) know that marketing is selling their beta software as finished goods? I don't think we're irresponsible rumor-mongers here so maybe I'm talking to the wrong people. Someone needs to point me in the right direction. <*preemptive context switch*> On another note, is anyone up for an A/UX BOF at the upcoming Balto USENIX? I know *I* am! How 'bout chairing it, Alexis? Say WHAT????? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ben Goldfarb uucp: {decvax,peora}!ucf-cs!goldfarb University of Central Florida Internet: goldfarb@hcx9.ucf.edu Department of Computer Science BITNET: goldfarb@ucf1vm.BITNET -----------------------------------------------------------------------------