terry@csd.uwo.ca (Terry Cudney) (01/03/91)
lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: > I am having great fun with a DAT drive. I have it backing up at >anout 7.7 megabytes/minute, and I can use it as a storage medium for individual >files, with an average access time of 20 seconds to any file on the tape, if I >know where it is. Not bad for a tape that will store 1.3 GBytes. > >-larry Larry, (or anyone else using DAT's) Would you care to give more details on this (or other) DAT drive? (eg. Brand, model, cost, availability, compatibility with A3000/A2091, etc)? Thanks. --terry /* terry@chaplin.csd.uwo.ca * Terry Cudney Amistosa MicroWare 9 Durham Street, LONDON, Ontario, N5Y 2H9 */ -- --terry /* terry@chaplin.csd.uwo.ca * Terry Cudney Amistosa MicroWare 9 Durham Street, LONDON, Ontario, N5Y 2H9 */
lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (01/04/91)
In <1983@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>, terry@csd.uwo.ca (Terry Cudney) writes: >lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes: >> I am having great fun with a DAT drive. I have it backing up at >>anout 7.7 megabytes/minute, and I can use it as a storage medium for individual >>files, with an average access time of 20 seconds to any file on the tape, if I >>know where it is. Not bad for a tape that will store 1.3 GBytes. >> >>-larry > >Larry, (or anyone else using DAT's) > > Would you care to give more details on this (or other) DAT drive? >(eg. Brand, model, cost, availability, compatibility with A3000/A2091, etc)? The drive is an Archive Python, cost unknown, availability unknown, and works just fine with my own backup/restore programs on an A3000. No reason why it should not work on a 2091, 2090, or Microbotics HardFrame, and probably on other setups as well. -larry -- The best way to accelerate an MsDos machine is at 32 ft/sec/sec. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
hclausen@adspdk.UUCP (Henrik Clausen) (01/05/91)
In article <2471@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>, Larry Phillips writes: > In <1983@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>, terry@csd.uwo.ca (Terry Cudney) writes: > > Would you care to give more details on this (or other) DAT drive? > >(eg. Brand, model, cost, availability, compatibility with A3000/A2091, etc)? > > The drive is an Archive Python, cost unknown, availability unknown, and works > just fine with my own backup/restore programs on an A3000. No reason why it > should not work on a 2091, 2090, or Microbotics HardFrame, and probably on ^^^^ Careful, I suppose it depends on SCSI-direct? Old A2090(A) doesn't support this, and others might not either. -Henrik ______________________________________________________________________________ | Henrik Clausen, Graffiti Data | If the Doors of Perception where cleansed, | | ...{pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax! | Man would see Reality as it is - Infinite. | \______cbmehq!adspdk!hclausen___|_________________________________W. Blake___/
wschmidt%decefix@decefix.iao.fhg.de (Wolfram Schmidt) (01/07/91)
In article <187975d4.ARN1431@adspdk.UUCP> hclausen@adspdk.UUCP writes: [...] > Careful, I suppose it depends on SCSI-direct? Old A2090(A) doesn't support >this, and others might not either. [...] Mine does, however! I think I've gotr hddisk.device V34.4 (?). Wolfram PS: Yes, I know, Pnews (or what ever) needs to getr fixed.
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) (01/10/91)
In article <417@rusux1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wschmidt@IAO.FhG.de writes: >In article <187975d4.ARN1431@adspdk.UUCP> hclausen@adspdk.UUCP writes: >> Careful, I suppose it depends on SCSI-direct? Old A2090(A) doesn't support >>this, and others might not either. > >Mine does, however! I think I've gotr hddisk.device V34.4 (?). hddisk had a precursor of scsidirect in it, but it doesn't support important things like SCSIF_AUTOSENSE to get errors from the device. -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)