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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!olymp!sfb256!volker From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) Subject: Re: Choice of SCSI tape drive for 386bsd Message-ID: <1992Aug19.112710.25394@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> Keywords: SCSI, tape, 386bsd Sender: usenet@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany References: <1992Aug19.083635.214@cc.uow.edu.au> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:27:10 GMT Lines: 28 In article <1992Aug19.083635.214@cc.uow.edu.au> pejn@cc.uow.edu.au (Paul Nulsen) writes: >What type of SCSI tape drive would you recommend for use in a 386bsd system? I have a Wangtek 5150ES which works OK. It's a little loud since I have it sitting on a desk in its own little box. When I bought it, it was the least expensive, compared to Archive and Tandberg. Cipher wouldn't work. >I would like to add a SCSI tape, but I know very little about the SCSI >interface. Are the interfaces to all SCSI tapes the same, so that one driver >can handle them all? Theoretically, yes. In real life, there are always problems. I'm lucky not to have any with my Wangtek, I untarred the 386bsd distribution while running the tiny boot disk (yes, I had a tar binary prepared beforehand :-) >For compatibility reasons I have a leaning towards an >Exabyte drive. Does anyone have an Exabyte SCSI drive working with a 386bsd >system? Exabytes are notoriously difficult to get to work, but they should work with 386bsd. -- Volker -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 Volker A. Brandt UUCP: ...!unido!DBNRHRZ1.bitnet!unm409 Angewandte Mathematik Internet: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de (Bonn, Germany)