From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 2 22:47: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5719D37B6F8 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:47:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.20.155.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA46130; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:46:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <008401bffd0e$38fdf480$029b140a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Duke Normandin" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Colorado 250 Tape drive Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 22:46:50 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Is anybody currently using the subject tape drive on 3.3R? I >just inherited one and don't know the first thing about it -- >or any others for that matter. Tia.... Floppy tape support was dropped somewhere back around 3.1, IIRC... My recommendation would be: If you can't afford to replace the Jumbo-250 with an expensive ATAPI or SCSI tape drive, I'd go with a CD-RW drive. The drives are under $200 now, and a $0.50 CD-R will hold about 2-3 Jumbo-250 tapes' worth of data... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message