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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Any quick suggestions on tape drives? Date: 7 Feb 1995 16:37:01 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 20 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3h87jd$l92@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <3gq0nu$7fk@hermes.unt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au chrisl@jove.acs.unt.edu (Lambright Christian P) writes: >We are currently getting bids for a new server and will probably be >running BSD386 or FreeBSD. I'd appreciate any comments on the most >compatible tape drives for this OS, or any tape drive that might >have been supported and installed with the least trouble. Any suggestions >will be appreciated (e-mail replies would be quickest, thanks). Any SCSI or SCSI2 tape drive should work fine - low budget QIC-02 interfaces and floppy tape is also supported, but SCSI is a better option I believe - a nice SCSI2 name brand 2gb DAT would do nicely :) Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |