From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 26 05:03:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA00866 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 05:03:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mph124.rh.psu.edu (hunt@MPH124.rh.psu.edu [128.118.126.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA00857 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 05:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hunt@localhost) by mph124.rh.psu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA28403; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:02:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970926080241.21509@mph124.rh.psu.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:02:41 -0400 From: Matthew Hunt To: Doug White Cc: Jim Marker , "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Any SCSI Tape Drive OK? Reply-To: Matthew Hunt References: <342ACB4E.8422379D@ifx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Thu, Sep 25, 1997 at 10:35:27PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Sep 25, 1997 at 10:35:27PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > I am considering buying a Seagate 4-8 Gig Tape Drive for my FreeBSD > > system. Any opinions? It is very inexpensive ($409) compared to the > > other 4-8 Gig Drives out there. > > Question is, what does this interface to? If it is SCSI, then that is > pretty cool; I bet it goes on the floppy tape or IDE controllers, in which > case it isn't supported. I bet it doesn't, in which case it is. It looks like the external SCSI version of the TR-4 drive. I have the internal SCSI version (which sells for about $360, as does the internal IDE version). Assuming I've ID'd it right (the original poster should have mentioned the model number) there are no problems using it with FreeBSD. Note that media for the drive are pricy, in excess of $30 per 4GB native tape. But it seems like a nice deal if you'll only need a few tapes. -- Matthew Hunt * Think locally, act globally. finger hunt@mph124.rh.psu.edu for PGP public key.