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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Travan Tape Drives and FreeBSD Date: 19 Feb 1996 00:36:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4g8glp$93e@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4fu4dd$3hl@news.ycc.yale.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 samman@FROG.ZOO2.CS.YALE.EDU (Rev. Ben) writes: > I was reading the archives and I noticed that other people had asked this > question before: Is there support for Travan tape drives under FreeBSD? > Is there likely to be in the future? No. > I just picked up a drive, and while I can't afford a Dat or a SCSI, the > Travan seemed the best way to go for the time being. Get a cheap SCSI (e.g. a used Archive Viper 150), or get a QIC-02 drive. The latter should be even cheaper than the Travan. I've also got the Exabyte EXB-2501 drive of a FreeBSD ``customer'' running, though it still needs a bit of polishing. This should also come into an affordable price-region. > FT maintainer, what is your answer? There is none. Everybody who signed up for this job has been quitting quite shortly, after seeing what kind of crap this is... :-( -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)