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From: prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Juergen Prang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Forward: QIC-80
Date: 4 Oct 93 15:53:17 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH
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burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes:

>By the way, about two weeks ago, there was an announcement for a
>QIC-40/80 device driver that would let DOS back up the 386BSD partition
>using an image backup format.  I have just used it to back my drive up,
>and I am please to say that version 1.1 (which is the most recent
>version) works at least as well as advertised.

>While this does not get a native *BSD driver for the tapes written, it
>does allow us to at leat back up the hard drive while we get it going.

>The program is available from ftp.uni-duisberg.de (I think).  I have put
                                           ^^^^
Just a short note from the author: it is on ftp.uni-duisburg.de
                               directory:   /pub/pc/misc

>version 1.1 up for anonymous FTP here in the pub directory.  It is
>called rawdsk11.zip and is a DOS zip file.

>-- 
>TSgt Dave Burgess
>NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office
>Brooks AFB, TX
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   Juergen Prang           |     prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de
   University of Duisburg  |********************************************
   Electrical Engineering  |     Logic is a systematic method of coming
   Dept. of Dataprocessing |     to the wrong conclusion with confidence