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From: etorwi@eto.ericsson.se (Wiker, Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: scsi tape recommendations
Date: 14 Oct 1996 15:24:14 +0200
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jlm@caamora.caamora.com.au (jonathan l michaels) writes:
> has anybody had any experiences with the 1 or 2 gig tandberg scsi streamers ?
> is it a ``plugin and forget" type of solution ?

	I've setup a machine with FreeBSD 2.1.5 and a Tandberg 2 gig
drive. There was some trouble getting more than about 500 MB to a tape
- I suspect that the tape density did not get set correctly. My next
attempt will be using the latest 2.2 snapshot...

	//Raymond.