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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail 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. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4tshti$e3k@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <4tlpsi$9o4@byatt.alaska.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie 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.