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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:6571 comp.os.linux:12613 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!q106fm!pete From: pete@q106fm.uucp (pete cervasio) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Which Tape to use with 386BSD and/or Linux ? Message-ID: <VVgmsB1w164w@q106fm.uucp> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 00:51:06 CST References: <1992Oct12.195958.1967@fns.gold.sub.org> Organization: WKBQ-FM Engineering Department Lines: 31 root@fns.gold.sub.org (Peter Bechtold) writes: > I'm planning to install 386BSD and/or Linux on my 386 system. > > All I need is a tape drive for that. > > Since I have 2 IDE drives, I would like to by either a > QIC-02 drive or a 1542 SCSI controller plus SCSI tape drive. > > What would you recommend ? > > I need a tape drive with 150 meg's capacity, > 250 or 525 wouldn't hurt though :-) Well, I use Linux and have installed the beta tape driver patches so I could use my Wangtek 5150EN drive (QIC36?) and it's working very well. I've got my entire Linux filesystem backed up to tape. With DC6250 tapes, it'll do 250 megs just fine! I am not familiar with the tape support under 386BSD, since I don't have the space to run both right now. :-( Pete C. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Cervasio | pete%q106fm.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu | | I fish, therefore I am. | pete.cervasio@f1.n2250.z1.fidonet.org | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | If you think of C as a preprocessor for your assembler, it makes | | just as little sense as before. (me) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+