stuart@cbnewsc.att.com (S. D. Ericson) (06/06/90)
I recently swapped some old hardware for an Apple Tape Drive. I have heard that the apple software is slow, and maybe unreliable under multifinder. I understand that I could get much better performance (and storage?) with Fastback, Retrospect or such. I seem to recall that Retrospect had special 'speed-ups' for the Apple tape. I have Redux, but it doesn't seem to know about Tape Drives. Does anyone have any recommendations? Any further information about the drive? I don't want to spend $100 or $150 for nothing. I'll be glad to summarize to the net... Thanks, Stuart -- Stuart Ericson AT&T Bell Laboratories USEnet: att!ihlpa!stuart IH 1C215 ARPA: stuart@ihlpa.att.com 2000 N. Naperville Road Voice: (708) 979-4491 Naperville, Il 60566-7033
dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) (06/09/90)
In article <1990Jun6.133940.17783@cbnewsc.att.com> stuart@cbnewsc.att.com (S. D. Ericson) writes: > I recently swapped some old hardware for an Apple Tape Drive. I > have heard that the apple software is slow, and maybe unreliable > under multifinder. I understand that I could get much better > performance (and storage?) with Fastback, Retrospect or such. I > seem to recall that Retrospect had special 'speed-ups' for the Apple tape. ExpressTape (formerly FastTape) works with the Apple drive, as well as with other block-mode and streaming-tape drives. The publisher says that it speeds up the Apple drive by about 400%, compared to the Apple software. I've been using it with my Teac streaming-tape drive; it works well and is quite fast. ExpressTape lists for $150; you may be able to get it for significantly less from MacConnection or a similar outfit. In fact, the MacWeek article says that "ExpressTape is $25 for owners of the Apple tape drive, as well as for those with Nuvo Labs software bundled with third party tape drives... owners must send in a copy of the label of their program floppy, plus the name of the manufacturer, the model number and serial number). ExpressTape is published by Baseline (901-682-9676 or 800-926-9676). I suggest that you give them a call... if you can get ExpressTape for the $25 price, it'd be a very hard deal to beat. -- Dave Platt VOICE: (415) 493-8805 UUCP: ...!{ames,apple,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303