Re: Accessing SCSI Tape Drive under OS/2?

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From: Jeff Urlwin
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 15:34

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In article <1191@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> ed@balrog.aecom.yu.edu (Ed Geraghty) writes:
>Greetings,
> 
>   I have been given a task to create a program to read/write data from
>a SCSI tape drive under os/2. I mainly am trying to get tar/cpio to work.
>How do I access the SCSI tape. Do I work with the SCSI adaptor or is there
>hooks into the SCSI adapter device driver. Is there a SCSI developers kit
>like on SUN's and other WS's. My current setup is an Adaptec 1542 and
>and Archive Viper ST525 Tape drive. Any help would be appreciated.

Ed,

See GTAK20B.ZIP (and possibly GTAK20S.ZIP -- the source) on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
under pub/os2/2.0/xxxx somewhere...

Gnu Tar with enhancements to help with EA's...Good stuff!!!!!

Jeff




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