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Subject: Re: Any SCSI Tape Drive OK?
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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Date: 27 Sep 1997 08:06:43 +0200
In-Reply-To: dkelly@hiwaay.net's message of Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:49:03 -0500
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>> On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:49:03 -0500, dkelly@hiwaay.net said:

    d> Jim Marker writes:
    >> 
    >> 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.

    d> It is a DAT, right? Running a Real OS, you want Real HD's (SCSI) and
    d> Real Tape Drives (4mm DAT, 8mm, or the big QIC format, on SCSI). None
    d> of those cheapo junk PC products on floppy or ATAPI/IDE interfaces.

    d> As a point of curiosity, wondering where you're seeing that price, if
    d> its the drive I'm thinking about. Found my 3 drives at 

Probably, for that price, it is Travan TR-4, which also is available
with SCSI. Its only drawback compared to DAT is very slow seeking;
read/write isn't much slower (it's like DDS-2).

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