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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:47655 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3742 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:59998 comp.windows.x.i386unix:2458 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!uunet!nevada.edu!jimi!maniac From: maniac@unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long) Message-ID: <1993Jul12.175633.17150@unlv.edu> Sender: news@unlv.edu (News User) Organization: Too many References: <mr2CA1Az4.J2E@netcom.com> <1993Jul12.122937.20476@taylor.uucp> <21s0p0$s6q@umd5.umd.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 17:56:33 GMT Lines: 18 In article <21s0p0$s6q@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: >And I'll try to find a non-scsi tape drive too, but that's a bit harder. >It seems that tape drives now come in 3 forms: > - attach to the floppy controller and use weird protocols > - SCSI > - direct ISA bus 9-track drives for > $3000 Or, if you care to write your own driver, (I will, when I can afford the tape drive, but first I have to get a few other things), you can try the Summit SE305, which hooks into the IDE controller. Loosing one of 4 possible drives, but hey, if business is so sucessful that I need more than 3 340 or 500 MB hard disks, then I can probably afford to add a SCSI controller, and slowly convert over then, as opposed to now, when $200 is a major issue. -- Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu