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From: jlm@caamora.caamora.com.au (jonathan l michaels)
Date: 10 Oct 96 15:58:40 
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: scsi tape recommendations
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Organization: Caamora, Clovelly NSW Australia
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Hello ,

i'm not a quiter but my tandberg tdc-3820 has gotten the better of me, it is a
qic-525 scsi-2 streamer .. works very well with os/2 and dos apps like arcsolo
and sytos plus but i'll be damned if i can get it to work reliably in freebsd.

i used to run linux and the tandberg had no problems what so ever. but ever
since moving to freebsd (2.0.0, 2.1.0 and now 2.1.5) it has been a nightmare.
finally i'm ready to call it a day, and as i have an os/2 machine that needs a
tape drive, well, no more need be said.

this leaves me with a freebsd box without a tape drive, does anybody have any
recommendations. something along the lines of the tandberg would be nice, i
have a library to maintain so a qic-525 type that would read and write one or
two gig format would be ideal. though, i'd be interested to hear from people
who have used the sony dats (4 gig uncompressed).

can anybody recommend a real simple solution, you know just set the jumpers to
id4 plug it into the scsi chain and reboot the machine.

with thanks in advance

regards ... jonathan

EMail: jlm@caamora.com.au
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