Subject: Re: Q: how to backup to a winchester tape drive?
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@anarres.mame.mu.oz.au>
From: Trouble Free RecepPFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF <jgraham@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/05/1995 12:08:28
#define AUTHOR "dan@anarres.mame.mu.oz.au (Daniel Carosone)"
/*
*
* > Typically, tapes are designated as [e][n][r]CtU, where
* >
* > C is the controller type; 'w' for an IDE tape; 's' for a
* > SCSI tape; 'x' for a tape on a Xylogics controller
* > (if you happen to be stuck with a SPARCheater or Sun 3).
* > I'm sure others will be dreamed up in the future.
*
* wt's are not IDE, they're tapes on a qic-02 or qic-36 interface. The
* `w' in both cases seems to come from "western digital". I guess with
* the advent of atapi, we might start seeing IDE tape drives
* someday. blah.
My misunderstanding.
Since wd disks are IDE, I thought that wt tapes were also IDE.
*
*/
#undef AUTHOR /* "dan@anarres.mame.mu.oz.au (Daniel Carosone)" */
--*greywolf;
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