SCSI tape drive support??

[darksun9210]

yeah i had the same on my A4000T.. only with out the movie shop thing.

diavolo was a quality program, even had extras for backing up movieshop drives. ran fine with a DDS2 DAT drive (4-8Gb tapes.)

if you want faster backups / restores, have the tape drive on a seperate SCSI controller than the drives you're backing up.
e.g.
drives (fast stuff) on cyberstorm SCSI,
tape (slow stuff) on onboard/Zorro SCSI.

depending on compression settings, don't expect blindingly fast data xfer rates, even disk to disk is a bit of a nightmare, but i suspect that FFS is a bit to blame for that... :-)

oh yeah, DONT use DAT AUDIO cleaning tapes to clean your DAT DATA drive. or much pain and gnashing of teeth with prevail :-D

[darksun9210]

well, its just a nicer way of streaming data... considering thats what tape drives do....

anyway, occasionally, obviously depending on the firmware version, but a read/write request sent to the tape drive might result in the tape drive locking out the SCSI bus to other devices while the tape drive sorts its life out. if the hard disk is on another bus, then the disk can get on with dumping data into the memory buffer while the tape does its thing. simplified example.