Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!access!edm!dragos!ruiu From: ruiu@dragos.UUCP (Dragos Ruiu) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Tape Backups for SV/AT Keywords: cartrige tape backup driver Message-ID: <433@dragos.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 01:48:59 GMT Organization: UNIX Device, Canada Lines: 32 Does anyone have anything approaching drivers for a tape backup that uses the second floppy drive as an interface? You see, I ordered another uport system for a computer I was setting up. I wanted a tape backup system... me: "Well, what tape drives do you support ?" uport:"We support Everex and Archive." me: "Do you support all the archive line including their new Viper series?" uport:"Sure..." me: "How much ?" uport:"$99" me: "send me one..." So I went out and bought an Archive XL tape drive. The software comes and guess what, only one model of the Archive line is supported. It needs a 60meg tape drive with a 499 (?) controller. Anybody wanna buy a tape drive ? Never Used ? I've never really had any big problems with uport. Actually, I've been really impressed on several occasions. I hope they talk to their sales guys though and tell them about this. Their tech support people certainly do know about it. It strikes me that a driver that talks to a tape drive that looks like a floppy should be easy. Can anyone help me ? -- Dragos Ruiu ruiu@dragos.UUCP "We will probably never announce a processor ...alberta!dragos!ruiu as a RISC processor."-Ken Olsen ...wanna bet?