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From: dave@hypnos.neu.edu (Dave Brady)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2 gig DAT drives
Date: 14 Aug 1996 15:30:30 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA
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>    CSC (www.corpsys.com) is selling Archive 4mm 2GB SCSI DAT drives for
> $300 with a part number of AD1.  Has anyone purchased one of these and
> used it with FreeBSD 2.1.5?  I'm assuming their part number is some
> ficticious number designed to conceal the real number, and I'd like to know
> about anyone's experiences with Archive 2GB DAT drives.

  Even better, get the autoloading one, which comes with a four tape magazine,
and you get up to 8 GB without changing magazines.  (A 12 tape magazine is
also available.)  The drive is $495.

  I've been using one of with 2.1.0R and GNU tar, and haven't had any
problems.

  Archive's reputation is quite good, from what I'm told.

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Dave Brady                         Administrative Computer Services
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