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#Tape Drive Question

    13-Nov-93 22:56:10
Sb: #Tape Drive Question
Fm: Darren Hamilton 70712,1264
To: sysop (X)
I have a question regarding the Corel SCSI Pro. I have purchased it in hopes of backing up my hard drives using a SCSI Tape drive. The tape drive is about 5 years old and was originally on a unix machine running BSD. The manufacturer is Wangtek. After installing the software and tring the tape backup, I waited an hour before it the backup program said that the was no device drivers for this drive. I don't understand why you can't support all SCSI tape drives. Is not the main set of SCSI comamnds the same a SCSI hard drives. And I haven't heard of a driver need for a certain SCSI drive. Is the drive to old that the SCSI tape drivers don't support the older SCSI interfaces??? I there anything I can do to fix this, besides spending $400+ for a new SCSI tape drive? Darren Hamilton