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From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape drive for 'dump' backup
Date: 13 Jul 1996 14:12:05 GMT
Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway
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In-reply-to: dfisk@world.std.com's message of Sat, 13 Jul 1996 02:15:28 GMT

[David Fisk]

| If you are going to be using a LOT of tapes, then a DAT drive may
| be cheaper in the long run because of the media costs. But...
| 
| That being said, I recently picked up a Conner (now Seagate) TapeStor TSM4000R 
| SCSI QIC MiniCart drive for less than half the price of a DAT. It holds 2G 
| native on a QIC-3080XLF QIC Wide tape. I bought it primarily for my Win95 
| system but I do have FreeBSD installed for testing.

I can confirm that the 4000 works fine under FreeBSD. The only thing I don't
like about it is the cost of the tapes.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no