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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: whats a good external SCSI tape? Date: 20 Oct 1996 15:43:10 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <54dhae$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DzHp5B.6Bt.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers) wrote: > What's a good EXTERNAL scsi tape drive to use with 2.2 snapshot? > (in a 1542 controller) Depends on the amount of money you wanna spend. For not much money (but only limited space), even an aged Archive Viper 150 might make a good tape drive. For larger capacity and more money, HP DAT or Tandberg 2.5 GB QIC are fine (the latter is for those like me who find helical scan to be inherently horrible :). External -- well, get a generic SCSI box then, and mount the drive of your choice there. Should cost you US$ 100 or less. Take care to use a quality cable, but alas, they are not cheap. -- 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. ;-)