20 Jan
2002
20 Jan
'02
11:09 a.m.
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:
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
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.