From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Aug 30 18:21:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA11131 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 18:21:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (root@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA11124 for ; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 18:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i4got.lakewood.com (fh-ppp9.monmouth.com [205.164.221.41]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA18151; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:18:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by i4got.lakewood.com id VAA13486 (8.8.5/IDA-1.6); Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:21:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter Message-ID: <199708310121.VAA13486@i4got.lakewood.com> Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199708310015.RAA00360@ns.feral.com> from Matthew Jacob at "Aug 30, 97 05:15:39 pm" To: mjacob@feral.com Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:21:14 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Reply-to: pechter@lakewood.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >A 250meg capacity is awfully small today, and the tapes are too expensive. > >They're also excruciatingly slow. Expensive... I've been buying new ones for $.25 per tape... They're NCR in the shrink wrap from a surplus house. Slow -- yes. Expensive -- not if you know where to look. I just picked up a 4 dat changer for $250 refurb... so the 150 is just going to be used for compatibility with boxes at work. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.