CompuServe Messages

For the Amiga, I only have 'tar' and the BTN tape drivers. With this, you can exchange tapes with Unix systems, as well as getting a TAPE: device. I use it for backing up the Amiga, along with a few 'execute' scripts to automate the process. Rated capacity is often far higher than the actual through-put, on any system, especially with the Exabyte. Actually, their figure is quite misleading. Even if you could dump data at 30 meg/sec, it couldn't write it to tape that quickly. The Amiga's SCSI is quite fast compared to most computers. Several years ago, I know that hard drive manufacturers were using them as inexpensive yet fast SCSI test machines, since they could move SCSI data faster than what was possible on PCs or Macs.