Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 13:05:16 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly <dkelly@fly.HiWAAY.net> To: derf@netxxpress.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Drive Message-ID: <199708261805.NAA10726@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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> Hi > I would like someones advice on a Tape Back-up drive > I bought a Seagate 3.2 Gig back-up drive ( IDE ) and Freebsd dose not > recognize the Drive. > I was told that I need to get a SCSI tape drive > Dose anyone have any suggestion and what would be the Best to get. > I have a 4 Gig harddrive and I dont have SCSI on the motherboard, I > guess I need to get a Card to go with it > The System is a 100 MHZ intel pentium > Please Help, I really need to back up my Mail Server The NCR/Symbios PCI SCSI cards are the best bang for the buck. Diamond Fireport40's are Ultra Wide SCSI and about $112 each. http://www.atipa.com is one souce that appears to be FreeBSD friendly (their web site says its FreeBSD and Apache). Also saw DAT tape drives there. http://www.corpsys.com also sells Symbios-based cards under their house label. They also deal with used and refurbished HD's and tapes. Lots of SCSI. Not always the best prices. The other week I picked up (3) Seagate/Conner/Archive 4326RP's thru http://www.onsale.com for just over $300 each inc shipping. Refurbished but with (supposedly) warranty from Seagate. This is a DDS-2 DAT with compression, so supposedly it will do 8G on one tape, or 4G on the cheap 90M tapes. Or 2G on the cheap tape, 4G on a DDS-2 120M tape. http://www.basoncomputer.com/td/td.htm shows 4326's for $499, or the 8000 for $599. Not sure what the difference is. At work we just accepted delivery of an SGI Challenge L. Came with the same drive I bought for myself above, only labled "Seagate CDT8000". On the bottom it had several different part numbers including the 4326 number. I know SGI has special firmware in their DAT drives as SGI is the only vendor I know of that does audio over SCSI to DAT drives. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm) ====================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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