Re: Firewire VXA tape drive

2001-01-12 Thread John Gee
> > 2) Is the new drive now a native firewire implementation, or is it >> just the old drive with the adaptor inside the box instead of outside >> the box? > >First, there are NO native FireWire storage devices on the market. All >current FireWire drives are using a bridge solution whether it i

Re: Firewire VXA tape drive

2001-01-11 Thread Irena Solomon
Hi John, > 1) Will I eventually be able to back up my Mac on MacOS X using > Retrospect on either or both of the old/new firewire vxa drives? We are fully committed to the best possible Mac OS X device support regardless of interface (SCSI, FireWire, USB). Right now we are developing device supp

Firewire VXA tape drive

2001-01-09 Thread John Gee
Ecrix have just announced a VXA drive with integrated firewire, bundled with Retrospect. http://www.ecrix.com/press/pr-2001-01-09.html I made enquiries about buying it with a local dealer, and have been offered the previous scsi-to-firewire VXA drive at a reduced price. This raises some inter