reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread steven standley
Heh gang... I am looking to purchase a tape drive for backup on my home system. I have a scsi2 and scsi3UW interface available. What I need is recommendations from the list on tape drives that you have purchased and have had little or no problems with. Ease of installation is a plus. In

RE: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-May-98 steven standley wrote: Heh gang... I am looking to purchase a tape drive for backup on my home system. I have a scsi2 and scsi3UW interface available. What I need is recommendations from the list on tape drives that you have purchased and have had little or no problems

Re: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread David Fisher
I have a HP T4000s SCSI Travan that is new and doesn't work at all with Linux. If the IDE does, grab one, but I'd watch out for the SCSI ones. We used this drive on NT. It was extremely unreliable, and HP/Colorado refused to provide any support or warranty service. We ended up throwing a

Re: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread Eddie Kuns
I'll second what Dave Wreski said. I have a TR-4 IDE Travan drive. I have the Exabyte Eagle TR-4i, and I'm very happy with it. It just works as expected. I did have to recompile my kernel to include IDE tape support, which I turned off long ago when I disabled everything I don't use. My

Re: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread Art Stine
On Fri, 15 May 1998, steven standley wrote: Heh gang... I am looking to purchase a tape drive for backup on my home system. I have a scsi2 and scsi3UW interface available. What I need is recommendations from the list on tape drives that you have purchased and have had little or no

Re: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 15 May 1998, steven standley wrote: I am looking to purchase a tape drive for backup on my home system. I have a scsi2 and scsi3UW interface available. I'm using a little Tapestor 4000 (TR-4) that I picked up for around $230. The tapes are too expensive ($30 mail-order, $35 from your