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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Any quick suggestions on tape drives?
Date: 7 Feb 1995 16:37:01 GMT
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chrisl@jove.acs.unt.edu (Lambright Christian P) writes:

>We are currently getting bids for a new server and will probably be
>running BSD386 or FreeBSD. I'd appreciate any comments on the most
>compatible tape drives for this OS, or any tape drive that might
>have been supported and installed with the least trouble. Any suggestions
>will be appreciated (e-mail replies would be quickest, thanks).

Any SCSI or SCSI2 tape drive should work fine - low budget QIC-02
interfaces and floppy tape is also supported, but SCSI is a better
option I believe - a nice SCSI2 name brand 2gb DAT would do nicely :)

Cheers

Leigh
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