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From: Rudy Gireyev <rgireyev@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Floppy Tape Drives
To: Robert Ricci <rricci@theonlynet.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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I hope this is appropriate. 
Not long ago I contacted the -hackers mailing list to see if FreeBSD
supports LS120 floppy drives. They will hold 120Meg of data and are
backward compatible with a standard 1.44 disks. The reply I got is
that there is a fairly solid, although beta, driver available for it.
I've seen the internal variety of these things for as low as $50 after
the rebate.
If this is remotely appropriate and you want more info let me know.

Rudy

---Robert Ricci <rricci@theonlynet.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking to get a tape drive to do backups, but I don't have the
cash
> to buy a SCSI drive (I'd need to buy a controller, too.) I've already
> filled up my IDE controllers, so I guess all that's left is to get a
> floppy tape. From reading the mailing list archives, I can see that
the
> support for floppy tapes is less than perfect. What success has anyone
> had with these drives? The two I was looking at are the Colorado T3000
> and the Seagate Hornet Travan. They use Travan-3 or QIC Wide tapes. Of
> course, I'm open to suggestions if anyone knows of another drive that
> works well (and, hopefully, is cheap!) Has there been any advance in
> floppy tape support in recent releases? I'm currently using 2.2.1, but
> will happily upgrade if the support is better.
> 
> Robert Ricci
> rricci@theonlynet.com
> 

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