Hi Clay Fisher, Yes it's me again 
18-Dec-96 14:49:31, Clay Fisher wrote to Jon Filina
          Subject: Backup Software
 JF>> Before coming up on Warp (version 3), I was using Central Point Backup
 JF>> (DOS
 JF>> version 7.1) to backup my 850 meg drive to a SyQuest EZ135 (2 disks).
 JF>> I now find out that OS/2 does not support removeable drives.  :-(
 CF> HUH? Since when? I have my EZ-Drive hooked up right now, just grabbed a
 CF> file
 CF> off of it a few minutes ago. Works like a charm.
 JF>> Since I do not really want to invest in another backup medium, I will
 JF>> have to
 JF>> Dual Boot to DOS and do the backup there.
 CF> Ick....
 JF>> If you are backing up from DOS to a removeable drive, what
 JF>> program are you using?
 CF> I do it all straight from OS/2, although I don't use any special
 CF> software. I
 CF> just zip the directories I want to backup directly to the ez-drive. No
 CF> fancy
 CF> programs, just Infozip which automatically takes care of EA's on it's
 CF> own. I
 CF> prefer this method because of the control of directories/files that get
 CF> backed
 CF> up. (plus there's nothing else to pay for ) A simple batch file takes
 CF> care
 CF> of the stuff I backup semi-regularly. Zipping the files also makes it
 CF> easy to
 CF> recover particular files that were backed up.
 CF> Why do you say OS/2 doesn't support your drive? I have the external
 CF> parallel-port version of the drive, and the OS/2 software that came with
 CF> it
 CF> gives me full use of it. I can swap disks and do anything I can from 
eal
 CF> DOS
 CF> with it from in OS/2 with no problems. I treat mine as just a small hard
 CF> drive.
 CF> What version of the drive do you have? External, internal? What problems
 CF> are
 CF> you having?
In all fairness OS/2 support for Removable Drives sucked. You only had 1 of
the two alternatives: Format the cartrige as a large floppie or format it
as a HD but the the drive could not be swaped. :(
Good News!! IBM has come out with a new DASD driver that works great!!
I now have all my SyQuest Cartriges fromated as HPFS and I can change them
on the fly.
To get the new drivers at:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com
I don't have the exact directory but it's under
/ps/products/dd???/newdasd.exe
 -=> See Ya!!, William Geiger <=-
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