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From: swhite@orion.didata.co.za (Sean White)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Exabyte EXB8505-XLE
Date: 13 Feb 1995 12:44:21 GMT
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Greetings!
Has anybody had any experiences in using the Exabyte EXB8505-XLE tape drive
under any version of FreeBSD? I would particularly like to know if it is
properly supported as a 5Gb (raw) drive rather than operating as a 2.3Gb drive
(the EXB8205-XLE).
I have a 486DX50/EISA with an Adaptec 1742A controller, 16MB RAM, 1GB disk,
Cirrus Logic 5428 video (VLB) and currently run FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 - I'll be
adding another 2Gb disk soon as well as increasing the RAM to 40MB and think
that it's high time that I got a semi-decent tape drive to back the system up.
I'll also be using the tape drive to backup 2 Sun SPARCstation LX systems via
NFS and am really going to need the capacity that the 8505 offers.
A speedy reply would be greatly appreciated as I have to get the ball rolling
to buy the drive this week.
Best regards,
Sean.