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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news 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 Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <551rqh$dr@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <550mue$2j9o$2@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)