tape driver but nothing showed up on the desktop. Whats wrong?
I have recently gone thru this dilemma myself… First of all, I believe that the GS driver is partial to the 3M mechanism as found in the Apple SC40 tape unit. I tried a Tecmar drive (whatever mechanism that is) on my GS, and though it recognized the drive on boot as a SCSI device, when I went into archiver to try to back something up it didn’t acknowledge the drive’s presence, although the SCSITAPE device showed up in GS/OS. I later found a good deal on an SC40 and hooked it up and it works perfectl y, though I am still curious about making the Tecmar work, though I doubt it will. #1. I have read that you should set the SCSI ID on a tape drive to 0 (lowest priority) if this will help any… this seemed to eliminate annoying searching of the tape drive on boot. #2. Another thing– The tape drive will NOT show up on the System desktop. It does not work like a regular drive. You need a special program (aka Archiver in GSOS or I believe there are some 8 bit programs, too) that knows how
I have recently gone thru this dilemma myself… First of all, I believe that the GS driver is partial to the 3M mechanism as found in the Apple SC40 tape unit. I tried a Tecmar drive (whatever mechanism that is) on my GS, and though it recognized the drive on boot as a SCSI device, when I went into archiver to try to back something up it didn’t acknowledge the drive’s presence, although the SCSITAPE device showed up in GS/OS. I later found a good deal on an SC40 and hooked it up and it works perfectly, though I am still curious about making the Tecmar work, though I doubt it will. #1. I have read that you should set the SCSI ID on a tape drive to 0 (lowest priority) if this will help any… this seemed to eliminate annoying searching of the tape drive on boot. #2. Another thing– The tape drive will NOT show up on the System desktop. It does not work like a regular drive. You need a special program (aka Archiver in GSOS or I believe there are some 8 bit programs, too) that knows how t
