news@rushpc (News Administrator) (04/22/91)
Hi, In the past I made backups using 3.5" floppys. Needless to say, I wasn't very good about making backups as it was very tedious shuffling all those floppys. A couple of weeks ago my system crashed and loading from backups served no useful purpose as they were so out of date. I'd like to install a tape drive hoping this will prevent a re-occurrence of out-of-date backups. I know nothing of tape units and I have several questions. I'm running AT&T SVR3.2 version 2.3 on a 386/20 with two 71MB IDE hard drives. The manuals I have, don't make any Tape Drive recomendations. Questions: 1. The Operations/System Administration Guide says, "To install from Cartridge Tape, the Cartridge Tape Controller must be set at interrupt #5 and address range 288-289". Are all tape drive controllers set up for this? 2. I've seen adds in the Computer shopper stating that some tape devices work using a port off the floppy controller. If I use this method and sacrifice a floppy disk, does the system treat the tape drive as a floppy disk? In other words will 'backup -c -d/dev/rdsk/f0q15d' work with this tape unit? Any answers/recomendations would be greatly appreciated. You can email me at ...uunet!rushpc!jjr thanks a ton -- John ---- Westminster Colorado | ...uunet!rushpc!jjr