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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!nic.csu.net!vax.sonoma.edu!levinson Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Re : [386BSD] What tape drive should I use? Message-ID: <1992Nov25.155849.1@vax.sonoma.edu> From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu Date: 25 Nov 92 15:58:49 -0800 References: <gf4upL800k00FhQbQp@transarc.com> Organization: Sonoma State University Nntp-Posting-Host: vax.sonoma.edu Lines: 24 In article <gf4upL800k00FhQbQp@transarc.com>, Guy_Dawson@transarc.com writes: > I'm using a Sankyo 525s SCSI tape on an Adaptec 1542B runing BSDi/386. > > I works just fine. It reads/writes QIC-150 and bigger tapes up to > QIC-525. I suspect it will also read QIC-60 as well but I've never seen > one to try. > > The magic words are `QIC-xxx` where xxx is the storage capacity of the tape. > > Typical values are QIC-150, QIC-250 and QIC-525. > > I'm not sure about Us prices ( I'm a Brit ) but it should be under $1000... > > Guy > By me, for me, -- I thought that the QIC-XXX means the tape format compatibility. My drive is a QIC-40 compatible drive, it has 60MB hard storage and 120MB compresed. -- Eric Levinson rcisnet2!root@moon.nbn.com | Home computer (UUCP) levinson@vax.sonoma.edu | Vax I can also be reached on my BBS system, Color Galaxy Milky Way (415) 883-0696