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kaikow@standards.com writes:

>Well, the problem is "almost every ...". I had an email interchange with 
>someone at Novastor who did not seem to even understand that many SCSI 
>tape drives are controlled by "on board" SCSI tape adapters for which 
>there are no expliocitly loaded drivers in autoexec.bat or config.sys. An 
>example is the Compaq 320/525 tape drive (it is actually a Wangtek 5525 
>ES with a Compaq SCSI tape adapter (this uses an NCR chip set) in a 
>separate slot). To use such tape drive adapter combinations, the backup 
>software has to be smart enough to recognize such devices. I woul suspect 
>that the Novastor product does detect many such dervices, but I was 
>turned off by the fact that the Novastor person thought that all drives 
>required si=ome driver to be loaded.

If there's some backup software that can recognize your scsi 
tape drive and the NCR chip in your compaq without an aspi driver,
I'd like to know which.

Many scsi controllers (the adaptec 1542, for example) can
suppor one or two hard drives without drivers, but require
them for cd-roms, tapes, etc.

You can download a demo (time-limited) version ofNovaback for
Windows 95 from the Novastor BBS, the filename is NBW95demo.exe.

The BBS number is 805-579-6720.  Sorry we don't have FTP yet, 
I'm working on it even as I type this.  It should be up
by friday night, try ftp://novastor.com



>I'd be happy to try the Novastor software if they could demonstrate that 
>the tape drive I describe above is supported.

>Is there a demo version that can be downloaded?


>In article <decastroDE4q32.423@netcom.com>,
>Richard A. De Castro <decastro@netcom.com> wrote:
>>brian@fantasia.demon.co.uk (Brian Key) writes:
>>
>>>rodat@biggs.teuto.de (Henri Rodat) wrote:
>>
>>>>Gary Hammer <gary@hammer.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>Wait until September!?  I prefer to have SOME backup, 
>>>>>especially running a new OS.  I wish MS would bite the bullet 
>>>>>and include SCSI compatibilty along with the QIC support.
>>
>>
>>>>If you have an ADAPTEC - Controller and have EZ-SCSI, you can use it´s
>>>>Win-Backup proggie. Not much of a program, but does the job...
>>
>>>But NOT with long filenames...
>>
>>At the risk of advertising (on my personal account), why not try the
>>Novastor product?  $34.95, full 32-bit, full Win-95 support, works with
>>almost every SCSI card and SCSI tape drive.  Send email to sales@novastor.com
>>or check out their web page, which for now is at http://www.novastor.surfcty.com/
>>
>>
>>Sorry for the advertising, I'll go now.
>>
>>
>>
>>>-- 
>>>brian@fantasia.demon.co.uk
>>
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