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From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Choice of SCSI tape drive for 386bsd
Keywords: SCSI, tape, 386bsd
Message-ID: <1574@hcshh.hcs.de>
Date: 20 Aug 92 07:17:40 GMT
References: <1992Aug19.083635.214@cc.uow.edu.au> <1992Aug19.112710.25394@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe
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In <1992Aug19.112710.25394@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) writes:

>In article <1992Aug19.083635.214@cc.uow.edu.au> pejn@cc.uow.edu.au (Paul Nulsen) writes:
>>What type of SCSI tape drive would you recommend for use in a 386bsd system?

>I have a Wangtek 5150ES which works OK.  It's a little loud since I have it
>sitting on a desk in its own little box.  When I bought it, it was the least
>expensive, compared to Archive and Tandberg.  Cipher wouldn't work.

i have a cipher 150S-I working on it. the only modifications i made was to
disable the soft error report - otherwise it is working flawlessly.
it even works with dist.fs/fixit.fs, because this was how i installed 0.1.

hellmuth
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