Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 19:11:57 -0700 From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@pegasus.com Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199708310211.TAA00598@ns.feral.com>
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>> >A 250meg capacity is awfully small today, and the tapes are too expensive. >> >They're also excruciatingly slow. >> >> This isn't even 250Meg. It's QIC-120 (120Meg) or QIC-150. >> > >The Viper 150 will happily read and write the 250 and 525MB >extended-length tapes. > Very interesting. This wasn't qualified by Sun, that I recall. I'd check to see whether it's a 2150S or a 2150. The drives aren't *that* robust- I'd say an old 9 track is more robust, mechanical, not vacuum. It's data density is very low though.
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