[Coco] SCSI tape driver for OS-9?

[Steven Hirsch]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>> Just curious if anyone has seen a tape driver for OS-9 or any tar-like
>> applications for backup?  I have a Cloud-9 SCSI cartridge and would love
>> to use one of my older streaming tape drives for backup.
>
> It would have to be a really old slow drive, else the coco's streaming speed
> would likely 'shoe-shine' the drive to death in short order.  Even at the
> optimum interleave on the floppy for bru, it still took around 9 minutes to
> write a 765k floppy with bru.  But the killer was the 33 minutes it took to
> restore from that same floppy.  Multiply that by the approximately 90 such
> disks it took to backup what was on the old Maxtor 120 megger, and you can see
> why I only did that once.

Yes, I believe you have nailed that one.  I keep forgetting how slow the 
throughput is on these old mu-chines :-).

I probably should link in the DriveWire driver and just copy the hard disk 
over the wire.



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