Dan
February 14th 05, 04:52 PM
This is exactly why people now need to have dual-boot computers with 98SE and
XPPRO. Microsoft has forced our hands and created this annoying but now
necessary situation. People can still buy 98SE via Ebay or another site.
However, I hope Microsoft will sell or give the 9x code to the open-source
community after it expires on 30 June 2006. I am adding the 98 general
newsgroup to your reply Vinny in hopes that a solution better than mine may
be found to help you answer your question. Have a great day!
"Vinny L" > wrote in message
...
: Alex,
:
: When I was using dos and win 3.1, I did have the aspi drivers for my
adaptec
: cards (aha1510, aha2940, aha1542c) in the config.sys, but not in win95/98,
: and TPU has run and recognized most scsi drives in dos/win3.1/win95/98. But
: my old IN2000 Always Technologies card had no driver. All I needed to do
was
: to hook the drive up and type tpu, and if I had multiple tape drives, a
: selection list would appear so I could choose the which drive to use.
: It seems, from what everyone is telling me, that under XP I will not be
able
: to use my old DOS TPU.EXE for a variety of reasons. This really irritates
me
: because the old program is so much quicker and easier to use than the WinXP
: version. Nothing compares to the old TPU.EXE for analyzing and reading
tapes.
:
: Thanks for you help.
:
: Vinny
:
: "Alex Nichol" wrote:
:
: > "Vinny L" <Vinny > wrote:
: >
: > >I have this ancient DOS program TPU.EXE by Novastor. It is a SCSI tape
: > >utility that I use to read SCSI tapes. I have used it for years on
: > >dos/win3.1/win95/win98, all with multiple adaptec scsi cards and 8mm,
4mm, 9
: > >track... SCSI drives.
: >
: > It is probably using a real-mode SCSI driver, installed in config.sys.
: > XP will absolutely refuse to have anything to do with such drivers.
: > Things have moved on, and the time where such old technology could be
: > safely supported any longer is way past
: >
: >
: > --
: > Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
: > Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)
: >
XPPRO. Microsoft has forced our hands and created this annoying but now
necessary situation. People can still buy 98SE via Ebay or another site.
However, I hope Microsoft will sell or give the 9x code to the open-source
community after it expires on 30 June 2006. I am adding the 98 general
newsgroup to your reply Vinny in hopes that a solution better than mine may
be found to help you answer your question. Have a great day!
"Vinny L" > wrote in message
...
: Alex,
:
: When I was using dos and win 3.1, I did have the aspi drivers for my
adaptec
: cards (aha1510, aha2940, aha1542c) in the config.sys, but not in win95/98,
: and TPU has run and recognized most scsi drives in dos/win3.1/win95/98. But
: my old IN2000 Always Technologies card had no driver. All I needed to do
was
: to hook the drive up and type tpu, and if I had multiple tape drives, a
: selection list would appear so I could choose the which drive to use.
: It seems, from what everyone is telling me, that under XP I will not be
able
: to use my old DOS TPU.EXE for a variety of reasons. This really irritates
me
: because the old program is so much quicker and easier to use than the WinXP
: version. Nothing compares to the old TPU.EXE for analyzing and reading
tapes.
:
: Thanks for you help.
:
: Vinny
:
: "Alex Nichol" wrote:
:
: > "Vinny L" <Vinny > wrote:
: >
: > >I have this ancient DOS program TPU.EXE by Novastor. It is a SCSI tape
: > >utility that I use to read SCSI tapes. I have used it for years on
: > >dos/win3.1/win95/win98, all with multiple adaptec scsi cards and 8mm,
4mm, 9
: > >track... SCSI drives.
: >
: > It is probably using a real-mode SCSI driver, installed in config.sys.
: > XP will absolutely refuse to have anything to do with such drivers.
: > Things have moved on, and the time where such old technology could be
: > safely supported any longer is way past
: >
: >
: > --
: > Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
: > Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)
: >