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From: rabe@akela.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Ralf G. R. Bergs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: UNIX and DOS talking on QIC-150 tapes.
Date: 22 Apr 1993 09:22:14 GMT
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
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kdq@quest.UUCP (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:

>I have a system with a SCSI drive.  I want to get a QIC-150 tape unit to
>attach to it, and then run software that will read (and maybe even write)
>UNIX TAR tapes.  (Or at least just read a stream and dump it to file - I'll
>take it from there).

>Why is this impossible?

It isn't.  ;-)

Use tar on the Un*x box and gtak110.zip on the DOS box. Needs ASPI driver.


Ralf

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