A/UX with third-party drive?

[Alexis Rosen]

In article <8200004 at hcx9> goldfarb at hcx9.UCF.EDU writes:
>/* Written  6:21 pm  May  8, 1989 by ron at motmpl.UUCP in hcx9:comp.unix.aux */
>>->Also, if anyone knows of a good third-party cartridge tape which would
>>->work for this set-up I'd be interested in hearing about it.
>
>I've got some more information obliquely related to the subject.  One
>of my Apple insider confidants told me that the Irwin Magnetics 5080
>(80 Mb DC2000 product) is a good unit to buy; however, he didn't know
>whether or not Irwin planned to support A/UX.  Reviews I have read
>support his conclusion about the quality of the drive.  I called my
>local dealer and told them to do the work of calling Irwin to smoke out
>the information.  The response was that although there is no software
>support for A/UX at present, it is being worked on.

Say WHAT?????

Who did you talk to? Irwin, in fact, is the only company to support A/UX
completely. I have already responded to this message thread once before, but
here is the summary:

They now have a 120MB unit which works at about 4MB/min. I have used this
device under A/UX- they wrote their own driver (the only way to do it). It
is really nice software- if you invoke it interactively, it has a real Mac
user interface, with powerful selection capabilities (file name, date, last
backup time, etc. etc. matching), but it can also be invoked from a shell
just like any unix binary. This means that you can have cron go off and do
your backups at three in the morning (or whatever's a convenient time).

There is a 250MB unit coming in the next month or two.

They will also have a DC600 by the end of the summer.

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Alexis Rosen
alexis at ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis at rascal.ics.utexas.edu  (last resort)