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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Backup tape drive question
Date: 2 Aug 1996 10:31:30 +0100
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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marshalk@alaska.net (Marshal Kendziorek) writes:

>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?

AFAIK Exabytes should be fine, DAT drives are less expensive usually
though ( in Ireland anyway ). ( I'm not sure if 8mm is a requirement
or not from what you're saying above ).

	David.