From: nagel@Cigna.COM (Mark Nagel)
Subject: SUMMARY: Using QIC-150 tape units
Organization: CIGNA FIRST, Irvine, CA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:24:13 GMT

The following is a summary of responses I received after I asked:

>Has anyone out there used a standard QIC-150 unit on a Mac IIci?  I
>am testing a box that has one in it and SCSI Probe can see it and
>determine what it is and such, but the backup program in MacTools
>Deluxe (not the newest version) doesn't see it.  When I looked in
>the MTD manual, it said it only recognizes Apple tape drives.  Are
>there any programs out there that can backup to a QIC-150?  I would
>think there would be, but I don't remember reading about any.

Most people suggested getting Retrospect.  Sounds like it has a few
quirks with the tape drive, but will do the job (certainly better
than backing up to floppies).  Thanks very much to everyone who sent
information!

Read on for the actual responses...

Mark

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From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)

Relax Technologies has at least two backup programs for the Mac
that work with the Archive 2150S QIC-150 SCSI drive.

	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
	AT&TNET     217-244-6067
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu

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From: yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko)

Get a copy of Retrospect 1.3.  It can use your QIC-150 tape
drive like a charm.  Trust me.

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From: friedan@raunvis.hi.is (Daniel Friedan)

I use a Sun QIC-150 SCSI tape drive to backup a Mac IIx (and I tested
the drive on a Classic II).  I use Retrospect.  I had to buy a SCSI-2 to
SCSI-1 cable but you presumably have that already.  The setup has worked
ok except that I did once encounter what Retrospect called a media
error and lost a few files.  So my confidence in the drive is not
absolute.

    Daniel Friedan <friedan@raunvis.hi.is>

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From: finlay@fermi.Eng.Sun.COM (John Finlay)

Retrospect should work with it just fine.

john

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From: "Dr. Eric C. Frey" <frey@bme.unc.edu>

I have a an Archive Viper QIC-120 that i took out of a unix box and am
using Retropspect. Before I bought it I called the people at Dantz and
asked them if my drive would work. They told me that it did but that there
were some limitations (I can't backup from a network disk). They were
quite helpful.
	eric frey

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From: "JUNIOR::CHUCK" <chuck%junior.decnet@rover.uchicago.edu>

Retrospect works fine with an Archive 2150S "Viper", a plain vanilla
QIC-150 drive.  
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Chuck Pelizzari
Radiation Oncology Dept
The University of Chicago

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From: lou@hoovertower.Corp.Sun.COM (Luis R. Ordorica)

Fifth Generation's Fastback II program works with the QIC-150. You 
can even use the 250MB DC6250 tapes with it.

lou

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From: kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski)

Retrospect v1.3 works wonderfully with a QIC-150.

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