4 Mar
1999
4 Mar
'99
9:15 p.m.
At 03:46 PM 3/4/99 -0800, Chuck McManis wrote:
Sigh, I've had this problem as well and not found a
decent solution for it.
What Mark needs is a program that talks to the ASPI DLL to get access to
the SCSI bus directly. Sure it can be done under Linux or any other UNIX
like operating system on x86 hardware but when the tape drive is connected
to a PC running windows and there is no opportunity to install a different
OS, then this problem arises.
I've got Adaptec ASPI for DOS, and it has an API, and I've got a
few DOS programs that'll talk to it - freeware even. There's ASPI for
Windows, and there's a few more freeware that'll talk to it.
Some of them want the data to be 'tar', though. That's why I asked
him what sort of drive he had.
- John