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BlitzDisk

    09-Jan-88 20:19:18
Sb: #102408-BlitzDisk
Fm: Bob Rakosky 75156,336
To: Charlie Heath 74216,2117
Charlie, I'm not sure that that approach will work, unless you set up your CLtd SCSI drive with two partitions, leaving the first partition untouched on the 1000. The 2090 driver (hddisk.device) uses the first two cylinders as a separate partition, which is used by the 'prep' command, and which allows the first SCSI drive on the 2090 (and the ST506 drives) to auto-mount with the BindDrivers. I was successful in connecting my old CLtd SCSI drive to the 2090, but I didn't need to keep the old format, so I just re-built the partitions the way that hddisk.device needs them. (My drive is one of the early Rodime drives that CLtd was originally shipping). Of course, IMHO, saf-T-net would provide a much easier solution to the backup process, but then I'm just a bit prejudiced. <grin> ..Bob