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- From: pm2@aries.demon.co.uk (Paul Ma)
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- Subject: Recommendations for tape drive (for DOS, OS/2, Linux)
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:42:20 +0000
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- Hi,
-
- I am in the process of buying a tape drive for my system which has 2 hard
- drives. The first one is 104M, used by DOS (windows). The second one is 340M,
- shared by OS/2 and Linux. I am planning to spend < US$400. It's best if the
- tape drive is supported in all the three OS, otherwise, it should at least be
- supported in either OS/2 or Linux and capable of doing an image backup of the
- hard disk used by the other os. One of the problem is that I'm using a hard
- disk cache controller, so a tape drive which requires accesss to a
- conventional floppy disk controller probably won't work. Oh, I don't need
- very fast transfer rate, 3-5MB/min will do.
-
- Thanks for any advice.
-
- Paul.
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