From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 16 06:35:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA24164 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 06:35:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roatan.ucs.indiana.edu (roatan.ucs.indiana.edu [129.79.10.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA24159 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 06:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (mikes@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu [129.79.10.5]) by roatan.ucs.indiana.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3/1.10IUPO) with ESMTP id IAA14153 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:35:49 -0500 (EST) Received: (from mikes@localhost) by nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (8.7.Beta.13/8.7.Beta.13/1.1clump) id IAA11791 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:35:46 -0500 From: michael squires Message-Id: <199607161335.IAA11791@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu> Subject: DAT tape drives To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:35:45 -0500 (EST) 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 The changeover from DDS to DDS-2 tapes has resulted in a lot of DAT tape drives being dumped on the surplus market. I'm not in the California area (any more) so I don't know what's availalble there, or in some other large urban area, but: JEM Computers (has a Web site, but it changed names recently and the old site is currently down) sells the Conner autoloader for $495 and the 12-DAT cartridge for $100. These appear to be unused. They are said to be usable as a single tape drive but would be difficult to load; they come with a 4-DAT cartridge. The same drive is also sold, at the same price, by Corporate Systems Center (www.corpsys.com) but the 12-DAT cartridge is $200. Both companies have also sold single DAT drives from time to time. CSC is also currently selling the Seagate ST43400N for aboout $330, new/ unused, with a 1 year warranty. I've bought stuff from both companies with no problems.