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echo: os2prog
to: John Polxorak
from: Julien Pierre
date: 1996-01-21 02:10:40
subject: Tape Drives

Hi !

On Jan 16 11:03 96, John Poltorak of 2:250/313 wrote:

 JP> GTAK comes as two packages. One is TAR for OS/2 which is 
 JP> basically the backup software itself, which will work with 
 JP> hard disks and optical media by itself. The other part 
 JP> provides the device drivers for SCSI DAT drives. There may 
 JP> be drivers for other devices, but I wouldn't like to say. 
 JP> If you dropped an email to Andreas Kaiser, he may be able 
 JP> to tell you about the availibity of any other drives which 
 JP> are, or may be supported.

The drivers included in GTAK will work with any SCSI tape device, not just
DAT drives (though it's much better to have a DDS-2 than an older QIC of
course).

Julien

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