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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
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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. ;-)