Hand-me-down Exabyte 8-mm and a Mac
David Blanchard
Today I was given an older Exabyte 8200 8-mm tape system (OEM name
on the front panel is CO COMP, INC). This drive has been used on a
SunOS network. I would like to use this for data backups on my
Macintosh SE/30. After hooking up it up and powering up the
system, I was not suprised to see that the Mac did not recognize or
even see the system. I suppose that I need some type of driver
software, but am relatively clueless as to where to start looking.
Any tips, comments, or suggestions welcome.
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Jon Gotow
d...@comet.ucar.edu (David Blanchard) writes:
> Today I was given an older Exabyte 8200 8-mm tape system (OEM name
> on the front panel is CO COMP, INC). This drive has been used on a
> SunOS network. I would like to use this for data backups on my
> Macintosh SE/30. After hooking up it up and powering up the
> system, I was not suprised to see that the Mac did not recognize or
> even see the system. I suppose that I need some type of driver
> software, but am relatively clueless as to where to start looking.
Buy Retrospect. It supports the Exabyte 8200 and is probably one of
the best backup programs around. We did the same thing with a
hand-me-down HP DAT drive - works great!
Alexander Lerman
Blanchard) wrote:
>
> Today I was given an older Exabyte 8200 8-mm tape system (OEM name
> on the front panel is CO COMP, INC). This drive has been used on a
> SunOS network. I would like to use this for data backups on my
> Macintosh SE/30. After hooking up it up and powering up the
> system, I was not suprised to see that the Mac did not recognize or
> even see the system. I suppose that I need some type of driver
> software, but am relatively clueless as to where to start looking.
>
> Any tips, comments, or suggestions welcome.
Retrospect software by Dantz (sp?) supports the 8200 in the Mac
environment. The 8200 is pretty speedy, too...
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Jon_Gotow
> Today I was given an older Exabyte 8200 8-mm tape system (OEM name
> on the front panel is CO COMP, INC). This drive has been used on a
> SunOS network. I would like to use this for data backups on my
> Macintosh SE/30. After hooking up it up and powering up the
> system, I was not suprised to see that the Mac did not recognize or
> even see the system. I suppose that I need some type of driver
> software, but am relatively clueless as to where to start looking.
Buy Retrospect. It supports the Exabyte 8200 and is probably one of
the best backup programs around. We did the same thing with a
hand-me-down HP DAT drive - works great!
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