From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 20:20:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA20616 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:20:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA20557 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:20:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id UAA05014 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:10:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00392; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:09:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 20:09:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Keith Leonard cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OK, Let's phrase it a different way... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Keith Leonard wrote: > Going on what you said about going scsi - I recently saw an ad for a new > portable tape drive called the eagle TR-4 ($399.00) from Exabyte. The ad > only mentions that TR-3 ($219.00) comes with a controller card but doesn't > mention whether it's scsi or not. The only other scsi tape backups I've > seen are in the $700 to $1000 dollar range which hurts alot more that > trying to get a QIC 40/80 to work. We have a Connor 4GB SCSI tape drive that works great. We use it to dump the workstation it's on (attached to a Adaptec 2940) and remote-dump our main server. > Do you know anything about the TR-3 or 4?? I've seen Exabyte mentioned > before on this list (favorably). These are trantor tapes, the successor to QIC. They should be available in both interface types. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major