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Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 11:25:47 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD?
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On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> OTOH, QIC-150 media can often be gotten for free.  Try to find a
> company that used to be a workstation reseller in the past, the
> workstation vendors used to ship their software updates on these media

I have had very bad luck with these second hand tapes.  Make sure
you test them before trusting them with your data.

-john