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From: kenh@wrl.epi.com (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [HELP] Sun's tape drive model 411 compatibility ?
Date: 16 Dec 1993 11:49:43 -0500
Organization: Entropic Research Laboratory, Washington DC
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In article <CI4x6s.Ds7@oakhill.sps.mot.com>,
Khanh-Binh Ta <kbta@nhatrang> wrote:
>I want to do backup for my home use PC with a borrowed
>tape drive from work. The tape drive is for my Sun 4,
>and it has Sun logo on it, its model is Sun 411. The
>pc has Adaptec 1542C card. I have put DOS, Windows 3.1,
>and NetBSD on this PC and plan to have OS2/2.1 . The
>question is does this tape drive work with my PC and if
>it does what kind of driver do I need and where can I
>get it. Any info on this is well appreciated.

I've used the Archive Viper QIC-150 tapes that Sun ships with my NetBSD 0.9
box at home with zero problems.  The SCSI tape driver is included with NetBSD.
I have no idea about the other operating systems.

--Ken