RamFAST Rev. C and Archive Viper 150?

[jdb8042@blkbox.COM (John D. Baker)]

Well, I'm at home again with the Viper 150 and my RamFAST card.

It seems that setting the Viper to provide termination power is
what did the trick (mostly).

I can back up all the partitions on my DEC RZ23 to the Viper and
now when I enter the SCSI utilities, I see the partition list for the
tape!

I'm now testing the RESTORE function by having backed up an otherwise
unused partition and restoring it to a second scratch partition that's
the exact same size.

One little trick I've learned is that before I attempt any operations
with the tape drive, I have to pull the "latch handle" back a little
and then let it go.  That way, the tape drive thinks that the tape
has been ejected and re-inserted.  If I don't do this, tape drive
operation becomes flaky for the next operation.

The restore just finished, but I guess it's not a good idea to
restore one volume to a different one, despite the fact that their
sizes are identical.  I ended up with two partitions the same name.
Eeek!

OK.  got it sorted out now.  Whew!

It looks like it works on the RamFAST.  Now if I could just get it
to work on my Amiga 500 and SupraDrive 500XP...


Thanks for all the feedback!


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