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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!hermes.sovam.com!sovam!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.ruhr-uni-bochum.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive recommendations? Date: 31 Mar 1997 18:21:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5hovbr$b82@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <333EAFC0.5718@cybersurf.co.uk> <5ho0p0$qsh@darkstar.ucsc.edu> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38172 tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) wrote: > you can get a cheap NCR SCSI card, and a 250MB SCSI tape for like 100$ > total.. its an easy solution.. I've even heard of Wangtek 5150ES drives for US$ 15. :) They are loud, yes, but that's a fair price. -- 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. ;-)