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From: crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Iomega 2GB
Date: 29 Nov 1996 18:46:26 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Message-ID: <57nb22$d8u@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <329C3031.372C@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <57i44o$2n9@raven.eva.net> <57l4b7$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Reply-To: crs@hamlet.lanl.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: hamlet.lanl.gov
In article <57l4b7$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
= jca@bighorn.accessnv.com (J.C. Archambeau) wrote:
=
= > Floppy port tape drivers are supported along with QIC-02/36 tape
= > drives. Otherwise you have to go SCSI.
=
= With regard to floppy tapes, the word ``supported'' is probably a bold
= overstatement. They are largely unsupported, and only a few older
= types are being recognized at all. Nobody has been stepping forward
= to maintain the ft driver lately. Those few individuals who did
= maintain it previously finally ran out of time, and finally switched
= to SCSI tape drives, which they apparently find quite more comfortable
= with now.
OK, bearing in mind that many of us are on (*very* in my case)
limited budgets, what are some of the least costly tape back-up
choices?
I will appreciate comments that address both hardware and media
costs from those who are more knowledgable than I.
--
Best,
Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby "I'm the NRA!"
crs@swcp.com crs@hamlet.lanl.gov Life Member since 1965