From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 14 8:38:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58AAA37B514 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:38:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA25410; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:38:21 -0500 (EST) To: Alex Povolotsky Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inexpensive tape changer? References: <20000313201345.A47256@over.ru> From: Chris Shenton Date: 14 Mar 2000 11:38:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: Alex Povolotsky's message of "Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:13:45 +0300" Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've been using a 4xDDS2 changer made by Connor/Seagate. They've been turning up at auction and surplus houses. I run it under FreeBSD-3.x with Amanda's chio driver. The first one I bought was US$125 from www.onsale.com including the 4x tape-holder cartridge! Last I checked, www.ezsystems.com had em but you'll need to get the 4x cartridge separately for a total cost of around US$300-400 or something. There's also a 12x cartridge but I've never tried it so I can't vouch for it's durability. It's the most cost-effective thing I've found, though stock at surplus houses changes quite a bit. I can't affor DLT even without a changer :-( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message