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Date:      Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:09:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Keith Leonard <keithl@wakko.gil.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OK, Let's phrase it a different way...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970211200754.361D-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970211200404.19667B-100000@wakko.gil.net>

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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Keith Leonard wrote:

> Going on what you said about going scsi - I recently saw an ad for a new
> portable tape drive called the eagle TR-4 ($399.00)  from Exabyte. The ad
> only mentions that TR-3 ($219.00) comes with a controller card but doesn't
> mention whether it's scsi or not. The only other scsi tape backups I've
> seen are in the $700 to $1000 dollar range which hurts alot more that
> trying to get a QIC 40/80 to work.

We have a Connor 4GB SCSI tape drive that works great.  We use it to dump
the workstation it's on (attached to a Adaptec 2940) and remote-dump our
main server. 

> Do you know anything about the TR-3 or 4?? I've seen Exabyte mentioned
> before on this list (favorably).

These are trantor tapes, the successor to QIC.  They should be available
in both interface types.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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