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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: What tape backup to buy for parallel port?
Date: 28 Oct 1996 08:45:05 GMT
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pavlidis@ibm.net (Savas Pavlidis) wrote:

> I would like to buy a tape backup system, but for the parallel port so
> it would be easily moved around and shared between systems with SCSI
> or not controller.
> 
> Before I buy one I would like comments of users which one best fits my
> needs. I would like a cheap solution as my budget is not too high
> (400MB to 1GB travan tapes). Could freebsd be loaded by this type of
> media?

FreeBSD doesn't support tapes on the parallel port.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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