Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-28 Thread Matt Barkdull
>Yep. And most used the 7200 as the basis for that equivalency. And the >7200 was Apple's answer to Packard Bell. lol. The don't wanna-be Performa? 7200 as built was as stable as anything else. It earned it's bad reputation based soley off of the fact that it was hard to upgrade. For it's m

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-28 Thread Todd Reed
say, I'd really like this drive to be rock stable, and so far it hasn't been. If anyone has any advice pro or con on using the 2906, I'd like to hear it. On 9/27/00, Jon Gardner sent an email about Re: VXA Mac Tool >I'm running it on a beige G3 300MHz desktop. I wouldn&#x

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-28 Thread David Ross
> >I'm running it on a beige G3 300MHz desktop. I wouldn't trust a Power > >Computing system as a backup server...those are the Packard-Bell of the Mac > >clone world. > > Actually, most of the motherboards are the same as the Apple > equivalents. They changed other things like floppy drives and

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-27 Thread Matt Barkdull
>I'm running it on a beige G3 300MHz desktop. I wouldn't trust a Power >Computing system as a backup server...those are the Packard-Bell of the Mac >clone world. Actually, most of the motherboards are the same as the Apple equivalents. They changed other things like floppy drives and CD-ROM d

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-27 Thread Jon Gardner
on 9/27/00 4:18 PM, Todd Reed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ecrix is telling me that the tool has problems running on older Macs. > I'm using a beige Power Computer 150 mhz system and the built-in SCSI. > > The tool is noting that it's using the asynchronous SCSI manager. > Anyone having any luc

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-27 Thread Todd Reed
Ecrix is telling me that the tool has problems running on older Macs. I'm using a beige Power Computer 150 mhz system and the built-in SCSI. The tool is noting that it's using the asynchronous SCSI manager. Anyone having any luck running the tool on beige Macs? Todd Reed --

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-27 Thread Jon Gardner
on 9/26/00 9:00 PM, Todd Reed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has any one had any luck using the VXA tool on a Mac? My version just > bombs with some cryptic error that it can't find the target. Doesn't > crash, but doesn't find the drive either though the drive is listed > in the window. Yeah, it

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-26 Thread Todd Reed
Has any one had any luck using the VXA tool on a Mac? My version just bombs with some cryptic error that it can't find the target. Doesn't crash, but doesn't find the drive either though the drive is listed in the window. Todd On 9/26/00, Geoff Rainville emailed about "VXA Mac Tool": >The

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-26 Thread Chuck Hornish
Eric Ullman wrote: > > Jon Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> slyly asked: > > > So, hey, Dantz folks, when can we start > > beta-testing Retrospect X? > > Well, since we're on 4.3 now, I think we should have Retrospect X (ten) by > about Spring 2009. Please note that this schedule will slip as necess

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-26 Thread Eric Ullman
Jon Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> slyly asked: > So, hey, Dantz folks, when can we start > beta-testing Retrospect X? Well, since we're on 4.3 now, I think we should have Retrospect X (ten) by about Spring 2009. Please note that this schedule will slip as necessary to enforce reliability standards

Re: VXA Mac Tool

2000-09-26 Thread Jon Gardner
on 9/26/00 12:43 PM, Geoff Rainville at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > VXATool for MAC is a MAC based utility used to configure your VXA-1 tape > drive. With VXATool, you can check and uplevel firmware, optimize the drive > for speed or capacity, and toggle compression off or on. Way cool, Geoff! He