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- From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Choice of SCSI tape drive for 386bsd
- Keywords: SCSI, tape, 386bsd
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.112710.25394@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 11:27:10 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.083635.214@cc.uow.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Aug19.083635.214@cc.uow.edu.au> pejn@cc.uow.edu.au (Paul Nulsen) writes:
- >What type of SCSI tape drive would you recommend for use in a 386bsd system?
-
- I have a Wangtek 5150ES which works OK. It's a little loud since I have it
- sitting on a desk in its own little box. When I bought it, it was the least
- expensive, compared to Archive and Tandberg. Cipher wouldn't work.
-
- >I would like to add a SCSI tape, but I know very little about the SCSI
- >interface. Are the interfaces to all SCSI tapes the same, so that one driver
- >can handle them all?
-
- Theoretically, yes. In real life, there are always problems. I'm lucky not
- to have any with my Wangtek, I untarred the 386bsd distribution while running
- the tiny boot disk (yes, I had a tar binary prepared beforehand :-)
-
- >For compatibility reasons I have a leaning towards an
- >Exabyte drive. Does anyone have an Exabyte SCSI drive working with a 386bsd
- >system?
-
- Exabytes are notoriously difficult to get to work, but they should work with
- 386bsd.
-
- -- Volker
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