Hi,

>   Thanks for that info Aidan. I'm going to get hold of a drive soon because I
>   haven't backed up my RiscPC at all since I bought it! Over a year ago!?? So
>   I better get a backup done shortly. I had a feeling that RiscBSD should
>   work with a SCSI tape device, but it was RiscOS I had the problem with.

Get !TapeFS (it's Share- or Freeware) plus !tar and everything works
fine, if you are not afraid of using CLI-progs - at least it worked
for me with a HP-DAT (not mine -sniff-).

Bye,
Jochen

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