What DAT Drives Work Under NT 3.5 WS - HP 35480?
Tony Perry
>From: Webster and Associates <medigap@bigdog>
>Subject: What DAT Drives Work Under NT 3.5 WS - HP 35480?
>Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 20:12:34 -0500
>I am in the market for a 2/4 Gig SCSI DAT. I like the warm fuzzy feeling
>the HP name gives me, and the 35480 looks like the one to get. Does this
>work under NT 3.5 perfectly? I want a compatible, no fuss drive. I also
>want a cheap drive, like I've seen the HP.
>How are the Conner 2/4 Gig's under NT? Is it true that they get 88 MB/min?
>Also, is there good backup software available that will run under NT? I
>don't suppose old DOS or Win16 software works at all?
>Thanks,
>Matt Webster
I'm using the HP and it has worked perfectly. I use it regularly to do both
incremental, copy, and full backups using the NT backup software.
Webster and Associates
Marc Dashevsky
Webster and Associates <medigap@bigdog> wrote:
>I am in the market for a 2/4 Gig SCSI DAT. I like the warm fuzzy feeling
>the HP name gives me, and the 35480 looks like the one to get. Does this
>work under NT 3.5 perfectly? I want a compatible, no fuss drive. I also
>want a cheap drive, like I've seen the HP.
I've used the HP 35480A everyday for a year now. It's been flawless
under both NT 3.1 and 3.5. For some reason, the Sony cartridges I have
don't work if the machine is rebooted with the cartridge in the drive,
but the Maxell cartidges do. (It's been so long that it may be if
there is *no* cartridge in the drive on reboot. This happened under
3.1; I don't know it if would under 3.5.)
>Also, is there good backup software available that will run under NT? I
>don't suppose old DOS or Win16 software works at all?
I'm happy with NT Backup that comes with NT, although no one else on
this newsgroup seems to be. I back up both FAT and NTFS partitions
with it.
_Marc
Tom Horsley
>incremental, copy, and full backups using the NT backup software.
I'll second that. My 35480A has worked perfectly. I also have no trouble
reading tapes I have written at work on a couple of other different model
drives (which makes a nice high-bandwidth transport for data, even if the
latency is a little high :-).
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Thomas F Lee
medigap@bigdog "Webster and Associates" writes:
> I am in the market for a 2/4 Gig SCSI DAT. I like the warm fuzzy feeling
> the HP name gives me, and the 35480 looks like the one to get. Does this
> work under NT 3.5 perfectly? I want a compatible, no fuss drive. I also
> want a cheap drive, like I've seen the HP.
I've been using a Wangdat 3200 and it's performed perfectly. I carry it
with me when I travel and it's been a lifesaver on more than one occasion!
I have no complaints.
> How are the Conner 2/4 Gig's under NT? Is it true that they get 88 MB/min?
These are supposed to be good too. I rather doubt 88MB /min - I'd guess
nearer 20-30 - YMMV. This will, however, be a function of your host
adapter and the disk drives you're backing up from as well!
> Also, is there good backup software available that will run under NT? I
> don't suppose old DOS or Win16 software works at all?
NT Backup seems fine to me although it is probably not rich enough to be
a true enterprise-wide solution. I use it to back up our 6 PCs and it
works ok. You can also look at Arcadia Backup software - this is made
by Connor and is, in essence, a superset of NT Backup.
Hope this helps.
Thomas
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Joseph P DeCello III
I'm happy with it, it backups my NT on ntfs, and my dos/win3.x on FAT.
I don't see the reason to spend $200 on the upgraded version. What does
it offer BTW, other than support for alot more DAT drivers.?
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Steve Moon
at all, and everyone seems to support it native - NT, Netware, SCO Unix,
etc. so drivers never seem to be a problem.
I'm wondering about backup software though - I'd like to be able to schedule
backups to go off at night. NT backup doesn't seem to have this feature,
and I haven't seen any other backup programs. Anything under about $200
would be great - I don't want some blasted $1000+ enterprise backup program.
Steve-
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John Nagle
>In article <D1IA3...@world.std.com>,
>Marc Dashevsky <ma...@world.std.com> wrote:
>>In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.941227201006.6501D-100000@bigdog>,
>>Webster and Associates <medigap@bigdog> wrote:
>>>I am in the market for a 2/4 Gig SCSI DAT. I like the warm fuzzy feeling
>>>the HP name gives me, and the 35480 looks like the one to get. Does this
>>>work under NT 3.5 perfectly? I want a compatible, no fuss drive. I also
>>>want a cheap drive, like I've seen the HP.
on a Mac. Will it work with NT?
John Nagle