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In article <4f6oeh$mp9@steel.interlog.com>, ldh@interlog.com (Laurent-Daid Hasson) wrote:
>I am kind of sick and tired of all these expensive and buggy backup programs, 
>and i would like to try to see how hard it is to write one. My target is 
>win'95/NT, and i would apreciate any information with respect to the API in 
>Win32 to read/write to a SCSI tape device (which is not associated to a drive 
>letter).
>
>
>Thanks,
>Laurent.
>
>
>PS: CC by email is much appreciated.

I don't know about the API as far as NT is concerned, but with '95 I believe 
you're looking at a considerably bigger struggle.  All the Win 95 backup 
programs I've seen seem to provide their own driver-level support, as no 
standard SCSI tape driver is built-in to the OS (unlike NT).  Everything I've 
seen with SCSI in Win95 seems to indicate that they wanted *some* support 
built-in, just not necessarily *good* support.  :/

--John

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