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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!picard.chickasaw.com!picard.chickasaw.com!smcmahon From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@chickasaw.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI Compatible Tape drives Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 08:56:53 -0500 Organization: Chickasaw Nation Net Lines: 24 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960802085343.3663D-100000@picard.chickasaw.com> References: <31FF7C22.72A6@sloan.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: picard.chickasaw.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Christopher T. Sia" <sia@sloan.org> In-Reply-To: <31FF7C22.72A6@sloan.org> On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Christopher T. Sia wrote: > I am about to buy a bsdi recommended tape drive (wangtek, archive > viper and everex) and would like to know the estimated prices of these > products and their web sites, its ease of use and installation woes, > if there are any. I would also appreciate any offer advice. Our WangDAT refuses to work in SCSI-2 mode, and thus will only put half as much data on a tape as the format is capable of. Wangtek says "we dunno" when asked BSDI questions, and posts to the bsdi-users mailing list have elicited no reponse other than a slew of "if you find out how to fix this, email me 'cause ours does this to". It's performed reliably and well, it just only puts 2 gigs on my 90-meter tapes. We haven't worried about it because we only back up about 1.2 gigs of data. Shawn McMahon | Smokesignals Computer Company Senior System Operator | Southern Oklahoma's Internet Service Provider Chickasaw Nation Net | 405 332-0033 http://www.chickasaw.com