Re: onstream deal??

2000-06-23 Thread Fred Turner, III
Just a note on our experience with OnStream. We bought an Internal ADR30 drive and installed it in a PowerTowerPro 350. We immediately lost everything on the SCSI chain. The drive works fine but I no longer can use my Zip, Jaz drives. Try checking ID #'s and termination. I have a internal

Re: onstream deal??

2000-06-23 Thread Workingmacs
I've installed about 5 of the SC-30 models on Macs. They work well. The only issue I've run into is that sometimes the drives goes offline after swapping tapes. Turning the unit off and on clears the problem. This issue was well documented earlier on the Mac Managers maillist. There is

Re: onstream deal??

2000-06-23 Thread Matthew Tevenan
we can help you troubleshoot it. Matthew Tevenan Technical Support Specialist Dantz Development Corporation 925.253.3050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: "retro-talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:49:28 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ons

RE: onstream deal??

2000-06-22 Thread jakob krabbe
At 09:42 2000-06-21 -0400, you wrote: Last I heard, the drivers were not available for the Mac. It's not a very popular format for the PC either. I would definitely recommend VXA over Onstream if you're addressing smaller backup needs (20GB). Steve Your input is greatly appreachiated. The

Re: onstream deal??

2000-06-22 Thread Trevor Haggard
Just a note on our experience with OnStream. We bought an Internal ADR30 drive and installed it in a PowerTowerPro 350. We immediately lost everything on the SCSI chain. The drive works fine but I no longer can use my Zip, Jaz drives. Trevor Pixelar --

onstream deal??

2000-06-21 Thread jakob krabbe
A company mailed me with a deal on an onstream backup solution. What technology does onstream use? Is that the name of a backup tape + drive or a company that sell OEM backups...?? (DLT's for example.) The tapes were 25/50 and the drive handle 4 MB/sec. What are they talkig about!? ;-) /

RE: onstream deal??

2000-06-21 Thread Craig Isaacs
A company mailed me with a deal on an onstream backup solution. What technology does onstream use? Is that the name of a backup tape + drive or a company that sell OEM backups...?? (DLT's for example.) The tapes were 25/50 and the drive handle 4 MB/sec. What are they talkig about!? ;-)

RE: onstream deal??

2000-06-21 Thread jakob krabbe
OnStream is a spin off from Philips Electronics. You can find out about their drives and ADR technology from: http://www.onstream.com OK, so the tapes are called ADR. I downloaded the whitepapers and will take a look... The reason I ask is that I haven't seen them around in any catalogue

Re: onstream deal??

2000-06-21 Thread Jim Grisham
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of jakob krabbe Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 4:57 AM To: retro-talk Subject: RE: onstream deal?? OnStream is a spin off from Philips Electronics. You can find out about their drives and ADR technology from: http://www.onstream.com OK, so the tapes are called

Re: onstream deal??

2000-06-21 Thread Jim Grisham
But who ever would want to use any backup program OTHER than Retrospect on Mac OS? ;) Jim Eric Ullman said, in a previous message: Retrospect for Mac OS and Windows actually use their own custom drivers, built right into the software. On the Mac, we write pretty much the only drivers