ot... at it again scsi tape drive in windows 95

From: Ron Hudson <rhudson_at_cnonline.net>
Date: Sun Jan 20 19:09:59 2002

Ok, aspitape did not recognize my tape drive. So at this
point I am going to go with the "Back up to the Samba server
and thence (??) to tape via my regular linux backups" plan.

I give up...



Brian Chase wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Ron Hudson wrote:
>
>
>> I do have a DOS diskette that I can boot with that has
>> all the Adaptec drivers and Syquest junk.
>>
>> Here's the rundown of the machine:
>> 486 66 DX cpu with 16mb memory
>> 165 mb SCSI hard drive internal
>> 40 mb SCSI Syquest drive internal
>> 640x480 16 color video
>> SCSI CDROM external
>> Tanberg TDC3800 SCSI tape external.
>> 5.25 & 3.5 combined floppy disks.
>
>
> Are the disk drives and the SCSI tape device on the same controller?
> And if so, what's the controller type? I missed it if you've mentioned
> it already. It's possible that the SCSI bus is getting saturated,
> and I doubt Win95 does little to aid the situation with intelligent
> handling of I/O.
>
> -brian.
Brian, cd, syquest, main hard drive and tape are all on one scsi bus. and
the floppy drive connects to ports on the SCSI controller.
(an adaptec aha1542 i think).

The tape drive is comming off and perhaps will be replaced
with an auxillary hard drive.. I do have a Teac tape drive
but those data cassette tapes (looks like a audio cassette
tape but with a notch taken out of the "oposite of heads"
side) are expensive and don't hold much.

Who knows perhaps I will LINUX the machine next week... ;^)

ron
Received on Sun Jan 20 2002 - 19:09:59 GMT