[Coco] SCSI tape driver for OS-9?

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>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.

And I expect that would be faster if drivewire is setup to smoke.

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