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Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:26:04 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD?
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On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

> John Fieber wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:
> > 
> > > 	1.35GB scsi tape drive is what i use.  bought mine from
> > > 	www.corpsys.com
> > > 		Archive FSCSI H/H 1300MB 1/4in
> > > 		New, 90 day warranty (No tape)
> > > 		$170
> > 
> > How fast?
> 
> 477 KBytes/sec

Hm....  I'll have to give this some serious though.  The speed
and capacity are about 5 times that of the viper, and the media
cost per byte is about half.  What sort of tapes does this use?

-john