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From: Christoph Haas <chris@acme1.ruhr.de>
Subject: Re: IOMEGA tapes
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 19:44:27 GMT

j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

> 
> 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.

You should  even stay away from  them if they  don't need a special io
card. I was not able to use these drives  (iomega ditto 800). They are
not recognized by the kernel. Go and get a dat streamer. 

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Christoph Haas		chris@acme1.ruhr.de

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