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 I searched for several days and did find a company that has a WIN95
backup system.  Their name is NovaStore, and the product is NovaBack
for WIN95.  DON'T BUY IT.   It cost $150 + S&H, which I jumped into.
It took 3 hours to backup and verify 400MB using a WangDAT 4mm DAT
tape, that use to take 17 minutes under DOS.
decastro@netcom.com (Richard A. De Castro) wrote:

>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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>>>decastro@netcom.com      Warning:  I am a trained professional.  No, Really!
>>>Rick N6RCX NREMT ATP MA  Do Not try this yourself - it could get ugly......
>>>Richard A. De Castro -   To those who have defended it, Freedom has a flavor
>>>rickd@primenet.com 	 the Protected will never enjoy.  
>>>                         -Don't Tread On Me!-
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>decastro@netcom.com      Warning:  I am a trained professional.  No, Really!
>Rick N6RCX NREMT ATP MA  Do Not try this yourself - it could get ugly......
>Richard A. De Castro -   To those who have defended it, Freedom has a flavor
>rickd@primenet.com 	 the Protected will never enjoy.  
>                         -Don't Tread On Me!-
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