From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 2 12:45:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07334 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:45:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07314 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:45:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA19226; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:45:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:45:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: George Vagner cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tape back up In-Reply-To: <199802280001.SAA28027@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, George Vagner wrote: > I am considering a tape back up drive but I want to know > what are the large units that freebsd fully supports. > > please consider ease of use and price of tapes etc... The only tape drives that work reliably with FreeBSD is SCSI, and even then here are variation. See section 10 in the Handbook; it details some (older) drives but modern ancestors of those drives should be OK. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message