From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 05:50:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA25102 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 05:50:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA25096; Fri, 26 Jul 1996 05:50:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199607261250.FAA25096@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New QIC Tapes? To: tgs@sirius.com (Thomas Sparks) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 05:50:22 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <31F6C23B.10A1@sirius.com> from "Thomas Sparks" at Jul 24, 96 05:39:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thomas Sparks wrote: > > I'm looking into getting a higher capacity tape drive, and apparently > FreeBSD doesn't support anything than the QIC-40/80 tape... > I want to use the QIC-3020 or TR3 tape drives and tapes... > They're more cost effective for me to use them than getting a 1000$ DAT > drive to backup my system... I'm also getting this kind of thing because > its compatible with Win/Dos/Win95 and all that junk.... > The Exabyte 96 is $200 for 1.7GB Tape backup which Is what I really > want... I want to be able to toss EVERYTHING on my drive into one tape... > > Please tell me I don't have to use a cruddy little QIC-80 drive or a > dat... "you dont have to use a crudy little QIC-80" Here is a web document all about FreeBSD and tape drives. goto "http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html" and click on "10.4 Storage Devices" and then click on "10.4.5 Tape Drives". it talks about 4mm, 8mm, DLT, QIC and more. Should you have information to add, please send it me in private e-mail and i will add it to the page ;) jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB