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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 21:38:34 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>
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Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD?
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On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Donald Burr wrote:

> I'm about to acquire an Archive Viper 2150S, (a SCSI-1 tapedrive).  Is
> this device compatible with FreeBSD's scsitape driver?  (i.e. will I be
> able to use dump, tar, cpio, etc. to do backup/restores with it, or
> archive files, whatnot?)

Yes.  No speed demon by today's standards (about 5MB/minute) but
it works fine.

-john