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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!wupost!ukma!nsisrv!stars.gsfc.nasa.gov!dc From: dc@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Cottingham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: What kind of tape is OK w/ 386BSD? Message-ID: <28JUL199218203085@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 28 Jul 92 22:20:00 GMT Sender: usenet@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Usenet) Reply-To: dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA/GSFC-Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics Lines: 15 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1 Nntp-Posting-Host: stars.gsfc.nasa.gov Time has come for me to buy a tape drive, and I want it to be something 386BSD can deal with, and something I can afford. INSTALL.NOTES gives two options: QIC-02 or SCSI. I can't find a SCSI tape drive at a reasonable price (where reasonable would be within a factor of two of those Colorado Mountain System guys, 120 Meg for $250), so I guess that leaves QIC-02. There was a note on this group recently telling somebody that his tape didn't work because he had the wrong kind of QIC-02, but after looking through the installation docs and the new FAQ list I can't find any mention of which QIC-02 devices are ok, or indeed any hint that some are not. Can someone point me toward a list of 386BSD compatible tape devices, so I'll know that what I'm buying will work? Thanks, Dave Cottingham dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov