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spindler@mugca.cc.monash.edu.au (Richard Spindler) wrote:

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>> By the way, I've been heavily using VFAT with linux for months with no
>> problems - as I have a SCSI DAT tape and Bill Gates doesn't know fancy
>> things like SCSI exist,

>Ya thats why N.T. and Windoze 1895 prefers to be on SCSI.

> Win95, at least until recently, had NO way of
>> backing up to such devices. VERY galling as the Backup they provide is
>> a gutted version of Norton Backup for Windows 3.1, which DID support
>> both SCSI tapes and my older Archive Viper QIC150,(circa 1988
>> vintage), which Bill's Win 95 hasn't heard of either. 

>Maybe its not a standard SCSI interface ;)
Fraid not (Adaptec 1542B, Adaptec 1740 are "fairly standard") and the
QIC is not SCSI anyway...
W95's Backup doco specifically states that SCSI tape drives and
Archive drives are not supported:  After all, ALL serious users plug
their multi-gigabyte backup device into a printer port or a floppy
controller, don't they??   :-)

I believe you can now buy W95 software which will do the job, but I
find it simpler to mount all my W95 and my linux partitions on all my
machines onto my machine with a SCSI DAT drive, set my script running 
(tar cvzf then verify...), and come back next morning...  :-) 

Alan V
>> 
>> Cheers, Alan Vidler