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Parallel Tape Drive on Ultra 5?
Post 42061 by Plain Person on Tuesday 21st of October 2003 06:24:38 PM
10-21-2003
Parallel Tape Drive on Ultra 5?
Hello. Maybe a Solaris guru can help me out.
I would like to connect a parallel QIC tape drive to an Ultra 5 to write backups.
Is this possible? If I remember my Unix edu years ago, there is a way to tell the system that there is blocking device on the parallel port.
Thanks for your time. If there is a way, this will *really* speed up backups.
I would like to connect a parallel QIC tape drive to an Ultra 5 to write backups.
Is this possible? If I remember my Unix edu years ago, there is a way to tell the system that there is blocking device on the parallel port.
Thanks for your time. If there is a way, this will *really* speed up backups.
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