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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Iomega 2GB Date: 30 Nov 1996 16:40:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <57po1v$2ae@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <329C3031.372C@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <57i44o$2n9@raven.eva.net> <57l4b7$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de> <57nb22$d8u@newshost.lanl.gov> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) wrote: > 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? Get a used Archive Viper 150, or something like this. If you buy this from an institution that used to deal with Unix workstation vendors in the past, i'm sure you can also get a dozen 150 MB cartridges from them. All those Unix vendors used to ship their OS upgrades and bugfixes on these cartridges. Our company, previously working with IBMs, has about 50 of them on stack... You can also use a QIC-24 drive, like the Wangtek 5150EQ. They come with a separate interface card, and there's a driver available in FreeBSD. (The Wangtek tape drive mechanics is identical to the 5150ES SCSI variant.) This is not as comfortable as SCSI, but perhaps you can get it even cheaper. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)