From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 16:47:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA06906 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:47:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA06893 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 16:47:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id RAA04530 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:47:03 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199702130047.RAA04530@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: OK, Let's phrase it a different way... To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:47:00 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: from "Thomas S. Traylor" at Feb 12, 97 08:15:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. Corporate Systems Center sells a lot of past-generation devices still new in the box, including tape drives. A recent perusal of their tape listing reveals: [http://www.corpsys.com/txt/NT.html] P/N Description Price 1 Price 10 ---------------------------------------------------------------- AD1C Archive DDS-1 2/4GB DAT drive 449.00 429.00 New, 90 day warranty AD2C Archive DDS-2 4/8GB DAT drive 595.00 579.00 New, 90 day warranty CTM3200 Conner SCSI 4GB QIC-WIDE tape 139.00 119.00 drive. New, 90 day warranty CTM3200E Conner SCSI 4GB QIC-WIDE Extrn 239.00 219.00 New, 90 day warranty CTM3200EXT Conner SCSI 4GB QIC-Wide tape 199.00 179.00 external New, 90 day warranty Several of these should place a SCSI tape within your reach. The Conner CTM3200 are TR-3 drives, with a native capacity of 1.6G. Note that DAT tapes are *much* cheaper than TR-3, if you use more than a few tapes, DAT will cost less in the long run. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com