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- From: pat@abtlabs.uucp (Patrick Conroy)
- Subject: Tape Drive Recommendations?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.195036.14122@abbott.com>
- Organization: Abbott Laboratories
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 19:50:36 GMT
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- My new system is coming in soon (thanks to all who helped with
- suggestions) and I'm worried about getting a tape drive for it.
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- I'd like some more suggestions from the community please.
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- The hardware: Gateway i486, EISA, Adaptec 1742 SCSI
- The software: Interactive ISC V3.0 (and mebb'e Solaris when it ships)
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- Can someone recommend tape backup units that won't cost me an
- arm and a leg! I don't care about speed -- this is for home use.
- Nor do I really care about capacity: 40, 120 would be ok. 250 would
- be great!
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- Do I *have* to get a SCSI tape? Or would a "floppy" tape drive work?
- Would an IDE tape device peacefully coexist with the Adaptec card?
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- Do any of those nice cheap tape drives at CompUSA or Computer City
- work with Unix?
- - Irwin Plus 120 or 250 - Mountain FS4000
- - Colorado "Jumbo" 120 / 250 - Archive "Accutrac +"?
- - Wangtek
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- Finally -- who are you buying your tape drives from?
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- Thanks again - Patrick
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