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In article <Bw5xuu.7q9@cs.dal.ca>
matheson@open.dal.ca (Steven Matheson) writes:
>I have a user at a field site who needs to make UNIX TAR compatible 
>exabyte tapes from his PC.  He has an Adaptec #AHA1520 SCSI board 
>and a 2.3 Gb exabyte (8mm) tape drive.

I had a similar need. I hate DOS-style backup programs, and would
like be able to xfer onto real (read: UN*X) machines if I have to. I was
able to make my Archive Viper 2150S (150MB QIC cartridge) and AHA 1522
work, and you should be able to also, following these steps:

	Call Adaptec, and get the latest version of the ASPI2DOS
	software (this is the only cost item, at least). I got mine
	with a package deal w/the 1522 from a friend, so I don't
	know how much it will cost.  If you are not running SCSI disks,
	you can probably get away with just running the ASPI2DOS.SYS
	driver. I don't have SCSI disks, so I don't (use the /I switch).
	Send me E-mail if you need to.
	
	ftp into oak.oakland.edu and cd into /pub/msdos/dskutl (I'm
	not exactly sure about the last directory name). Get a series
	of files called ASPI*.ZIP. Unpack these, and in ASPIBIN.ZIP
	there are two files, CTCTRL.EXE and TAR.EXE (and a readme
	file). CTCTRL is a program like "mt", and TAR is obvious. It's
	GNU tar.

Good luck! The only problem I've had from day one was I can't run it
under WinWoes (which is OK, as I only use that to view dirty JPEG pix),
and the QIC-II format is sllllooooow. At least with my drive, and a "b"
set to 32 under TAR, I get full-speed streaming (with no backspaces). YMMV.

	-Kenny

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