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From: skeezix@interlog.com (Jeff Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: NetBSD1.2 and tape drives for IDE controllers?
Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:10:47 -0500
Organization: InterLog Internet Services (416) 975-2655 info@interlog.com
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I'm looking to pick up a tape drive for casual use on my home machine. 
I'm a student (for a little while longer :) and am trying to keep the costs
down, and I'm without a SCSI controller.

Has anyone had any good experiences with IDE tape drives under NetBSD?

I've heard that the Colorado T1000 will work, but I've not had any decent
luck with their products in the past ( a number of years back), so am a
little leary..

Or are tape drives so long lived that I ought to save my pennies and
pick a SCSI controller up for Christmas and then look into a series
piece of work?

			Jeff
			Tired-guy

-- 
 SLvH            |  "Good - bad - I'm the guy with the gun."
 Jeff Mitchell   |  "Hail to the king, baby."
 skeezix@io.org  |                   -- Bruce Campbell, Armies of Darkness