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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape > 3GB internal for use w/ FreeBSD & Win95
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s005jfc@alpha.wright.edu (JAMES CLARK) writes:

>[nothing]

Cat got your tongue?

In any case, there are DAT drives that are that big. I personally
trust DAT far more than 8mm.

Of course, the hard part is going to be getting a tape drive to
work under Windows 95. They usually come up as an unknown device
and just sit there, unusable. :-(

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