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From: maniac@unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: 486DX2/66 for Unix conclusions (fairly long)
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In article <21s0p0$s6q@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:

>And I'll try to find a non-scsi tape drive too, but that's a bit harder.
>It seems that tape drives now come in 3 forms:
>	- attach to the floppy controller and use weird protocols 
>	- SCSI
>	- direct ISA bus 9-track drives for > $3000

Or, if you care to write your own driver, (I will, when I can afford
the tape drive, but first I have to get a few other things), you can
try the Summit SE305, which hooks into the IDE controller.  Loosing
one of 4 possible drives, but hey, if business is so sucessful that I
need more than 3 340 or 500 MB hard disks, then I can probably afford
to add a SCSI controller, and slowly convert over then, as opposed to
now, when $200 is a major issue.

-- 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@cs.unlv.edu