From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 5 20:57:40 1995 Return-Path: hardware-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA21877 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 20:57:40 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA21865 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 20:57:27 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA25576; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 13:32:53 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199509060402.NAA25576@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Tape drive recommendation To: jbrann@panix.com (John Brann) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 13:32:53 +0930 (CST) Cc: tony@thing.sunquest.com, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509060337.XAA19092@panix2.panix.com> from "John Brann" at Sep 5, 95 11:37:27 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 975 Sender: hardware-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk John Brann stands accused of saying: > > (If anyone knows of any screaming deals on _good_ 4mm DAT drives - let me know) > > > I recently bought a Conner SCSI 2Gb QIC drive. It wasn't too expensive > (I forget how much, $250?) and works fine. The tapes are damned expensive, > though! DDS2 tapes, on the other hand, are around $20 here. This reinvokes a question I asked a while ago : is there _anyone_ out there using a Wangtek 3400DX? I have one here that is misbehaving seriously, and I'm really looking for some advice 8( > John Brann -- jbrann@panix.com jbrann@newparadigm.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[