Questions about AU/X

David W. Berry dwb at Apple.COM
Wed Aug 17 06:32:45 AEST 1988


In article <15607 at apple.Apple.COM> dwb at apple.com.UUCP (David W. Berry) writes:
>In article <5093 at killer.DALLAS.TX.US> donn at killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Donn Fishbein) writes:
>>4) Do any tape backup units other than Apple's work with AU/X?  Can you back
>>   up the AU/X partition under MacOS?
>	Currently, A/UX does not support any tape drives.  It's reasonable
>to expect that that will change soon.  Tape drive support will probably
>not extend to apple tape drives due to the wide variation in functionality
>of SCSI tape drives.  The A/UX partitions can be backed up (image only,
>not files) under MacOS by the software shipped with the tape drive.
	Oops, more or less obviously I meant to say that:
	"Tape drive support will probably not extend >beyond< apple
tape drives due to the wide variation in functionality of SCSI tape
drives"

	Sorry for the confusion.




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