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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Parallel port tape backup, anybody?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.230035.23453@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 23:00:35 GMT
- References: <BODO.92Dec29184054@phase.Princeton.EDU>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <BODO.92Dec29184054@phase.Princeton.EDU> bodo@phase.Princeton.EDU (Bodo Huckestein) writes:
- >Does anybody know of a way to backup an OS/2 HPFS through the parallel
- >port? CMS and Irwin do not support OS/2 on their parallel port tape
- >backups. Is there a way to use a Trantor SCSI adapter and a SCSI tape
- >drive? Has anybody done that?
- >I need something to run of the parallel port since I need to backup a
- >notebook HD.
-
- Trantor has drivers for their parallel port SCSI adapters, so this
- should work fine. For example, install the Trantor parallel-to-SCSI
- adapter, install the device driver, and then use a tape backup package
- that supports SCSI adapters (like Sytos Plus). (Note that Sytron may
- not officially support this configuration.)
-
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