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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!epiwrl.entropic.com!usenet 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 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <2eq3j7$jkb@sparc10.entropic.com> References: <CI4x6s.Ds7@oakhill.sps.mot.com> Reply-To: kenh@wrl.epi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc10.entropic.com 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