Accessing scsi tape via dos

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4 total messages Started by brian hallman Wed, 06 Mar 1996 12:22

#14383

Author: brian hallman
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 12:22

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Hi news-groupies,

I have a utility called wintar.  It allows me to read tar files and tar floppies.
I am trying to get it to read a tar tape, but I don't know what device to specify
it as.  Does anyone know what device to specify.  It is an exabyte 8200 on a
soundblaster scsiII card.  I have no trouble accessing it through norton backup.
It is at a target of 5.

Thanks in advance.
Brian

Re: Accessing scsi tape via dos

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Author: Jim Glass
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 19:30

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In article <4hk02s$4j0@ohnasn01.sinet.slb.com>, hallman@dfwftp.dallas.geoquest.slb.com (brian hallman) writes:
|> Hi news-groupies,
|> 
|> I have a utility called wintar.  It allows me to read tar files and tar floppies.
|> I am trying to get it to read a tar tape, but I don't know what device to specify
|> it as.  Does anyone know what device to specify.  It is an exabyte 8200 on a
|> soundblaster scsiII card.  I have no trouble accessing it through norton backup.
|> It is at a target of 5.
|> 
|> Thanks in advance.
|> Brian

I dunno.  There is a DOS utility called TAPEDISK that will make a DAT tape
drive (SCSI) appear as a DOS drive letter (like "M:").  TapeDisk costs $250 
and works swell.  It requires an ASPI driver (so does Norton).

You can buy it from The Programmer's Shop or other mail-order software
houses specializing in tools and utilities.

Jim Glass

Re: Accessing scsi tape via dos

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Author: Edgar H. Daza
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 03:34

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hallman@dfwftp.dallas.geoquest.slb.com (brian hallman) wrote:

>Hi news-groupies,

>I have a utility called wintar.  It allows me to read tar files and tar floppies.
>I am trying to get it to read a tar tape, but I don't know what device to specify
>it as.  Does anyone know what device to specify.  It is an exabyte 8200 on a
>soundblaster scsiII card.  I have no trouble accessing it through norton backup.
>It is at a target of 5.

>Thanks in advance.
>Brian

By the name of it, I presume that this is a windows app. Is this the
case ? I'm looking for a good dos tape backup utility on an Adaptec ctlr

Any info will be appreciated.

Thanks,
Edgar

Re: Accessing scsi tape via dos

#14386

Author: Neil R. Erath
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:00

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You can also read & write tar tapes with the MKS toolkit and an ASPI
tape driver, and there is also a port of GNU TAR for DOS.

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