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From: "Thomas S. Traylor" <ttraylor@titan.cs.mci.com>
To: Keith Leonard <keithl@wakko.gil.net>
Cc: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: OK, Let's phrase it a different way...
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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Keith Leonard wrote:

> Thanks for the response Doug,
> 
> 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.

I bought my Connor TapeStore 4000 (SCSI internal) serveral years ago
for $350.00.  It uses QIC-3040w tapes.  I haven't had any problems
with it.

Before I had this tape drive, I was using a QIC 80 floppy tape.  What
a pain....... Switch to the SCSI tape if you can.

Somewhere on www.freebsd.org is information about different tape
devices people are using.  I think you can find it in the supported
hardware doc.

Tom

> 
> Do you know anything about the TR-3 or 4?? I've seen Exabyte mentioned
> before on this list (favorably).
> 
> Keith
> keithl@wakko.gil.net
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> 

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