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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!ercs50 From: ercs50@castle.ed.ac.uk (johnb) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.unix.sco.misc Subject: HP Autoloader Drivers - HELP!!!! Date: 18 Oct 1995 18:00:51 GMT Organization: Edinburgh Portable Compilers Ltd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <463fcj$pfq@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: johnb@epc.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: castle.ed.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:49487 comp.unix.admin:34026 comp.unix.bsd:16734 comp.unix.internals:9180 comp.unix.questions:71294 comp.unix.sys5.r4:10383 comp.sys.sun.admin:54954 comp.sys.sgi.admin:21067 comp.unix.sco.misc:7602 We recently bought an HP c1355A DDS-2 Autoloader. I want it to back up 40GB of data unattended - i.e. when one tape is full it just goes on to the next. Apparently I need a special device driver to make it work like this, but this seems absolutely supid to me - I thought that 'Auto' and 'Loader' meant that the tapes would load automatically. Does anybody have any experience of this? If so, do I need a driver and where can I get one - FOR ANY UNIX PLATFORM (I'll port it if I have to). At present we're trying to back the whole lot up using a couple of DAT drives, lots of sleepless nihts and tape changes, and a whole load of beer. HELP! Any advice, info or pointers are gratefully welcome. Thanks. john Birtley.