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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: Tape Backup
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On Thursday, 20 April 2000 at  9:26:54 -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Tremayne Smith wrote:
>
>> Can anyone offer any advice as to how to install a HP Sure Store Dat tape
>> drive, on a box running freeBSD 4.0.  And any pointers on how to use it to
>> backup my system would be greatly appreciated.  Thanx in advance.

It should work out of the box.

> I had one for a couple of weeks and ended up taking it back. It
> simple would not work at all. Through proxy even some FreeBSD driver
> programmers had worked on the driver to see if it could get
> going. All to no end.  Unless 4.0 has support for this I don't see
> you getting much done with it.

Well, since you don't say what the problem was, this statement isn't
very useful.

Greg
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