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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IOMEGA tapes
Date: 27 Oct 1996 14:55:39 GMT
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Pat Sonnek <psonnek@soncom.com> wrote:

> Does free bsd support (well) any of the tape drives made by IOMEGA, they
> have some new ones out that come with thier own i/o card.  I was
> wondering if FreeBSD will be able to make backups using these drives

If they come with an own IO card, stay away from them.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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