RE: tape back up

[Stuart Biggar <stu@icarus2.opt-sci.arizona.edu>]

I have a TP755CX with a Dock II.  I have used a HP1533A in an external
box with both the Adaptech controller in the Dock II and with an IBM
PCMCIA SCSI card.  These both work fine under OS/2 with software called
BakupWiz.  I have not used the tape under any OS other than OS/2.

The IBM PCMCIA SCSI card is basically a Future Domain controller.  It comes
with DOS/Win drivers (PowerSCSI) and OS/2 drivers.  I have used it with the
tape and with a CD-ROM under both DOS/Win and OS/2 when the card was plugged
into both the internal PCMCIA slots and the PCMCIA slots in an IBM port
replicator.

The HP1533A is quite fast and holds 4GB on a DDS-2 tape.  It faster on
some Pentium desktops with PCI bus SCSI controllers (HP Vectra XU) but
is still quite speedy on my 755CX (about 28 Meg/minute off the 810 M or
1.2 G internal TP drives).  At some point I plan to install a SCSI drive
in the Dock and I expect it might dump a bit faster?  The drive will
compress things so you can put lots on a tape.

I am curious if others have tried Solaris X86 or Win NT on a 755CX ?
In a Dock II?  (I have a 3Com 509B-combo in the dock which works fine
with Warp Connect, NFS and PMX (with CSDs) on thin ethernet).

Stuart

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