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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!sjsumcs.sjsu.edu!wetware!nntp-hub.barrnet.net!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!news1.digital.com!decwrl!hookup!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Jumbo 1400, QIC-3020-MC Tap Date: 22 Feb 1996 23:52:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4givk7$rf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <mitch4Dn3t5x.Fzs@netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 mitch4@netcom.com (mitch goldstrom) writes: > I have a Jumbo 1400, QIC-3020-MC Tape, 400'. Is it supported? No. The floppy tape support is rather bugg^H^H^H^Hasic. Handling this kind of drives seems to have pissed off any and all developers who once intented to deal with them. Go figure. Get SCSI. Even get an ol' Archive Viper 150 or something like this. It'll make you much more happy. I'm sorry that the computer industry is selling you that crap. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)