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From: "Francisco Reyes" <francisco@natserv.com>
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>From: Jerry Kelley <jerryk@iquest.net>
>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 22:44:41 -0500
>Subject: Re:Tape drives for FreeBSD
>
>Does anyone have a recommendation for a decently large capacity tape
>drive that FreeBSD 2.1.5 recognizes? 

>From what I have read on the Handbook most SCSI tape drives should
work.
I recently got a Seagate CTM8000 (4Gig/8 compressed).
It works well from FreeBSD, OS/2 and Windows 95 (don't have NT).

I don't know about floppy based drives, but if you can afford the
controller, SCSI should be a better choice. More backup software will
support SCSI drives than floppy based ones.