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From: marshalk@alaska.net (Marshal Kendziorek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Backup tape drive question
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 20:03:49 GMT
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Does anyone have any recomendations/experiance with 8mm tape drives
and freeBSD?  I need to be able to read 8mm tapes created on sun and
IBM with TAR.  Is the Exabyte just fine or are there other drives as
good or better?  Any used ones out there?

thanks...marshal