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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Jumbo 1400, QIC-3020-MC Tap
Date: 22 Feb 1996 23:52:39 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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mitch4@netcom.com (mitch goldstrom) writes:

> I have a Jumbo 1400, QIC-3020-MC Tape, 400'.  Is it supported?

No.  The floppy tape support is rather bugg^H^H^H^Hasic.  Handling
this kind of drives seems to have pissed off any and all developers
who once intented to deal with them.  Go figure.

Get SCSI.  Even get an ol' Archive Viper 150 or something like this.
It'll make you much more happy.  I'm sorry that the computer industry
is selling you that crap.

-- 
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. ;-)