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Re: Suggest a Tape Drive Please!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Hutchison)
Tue Nov 26 08:17:32 1996

Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:14:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Jeff Hutchison <jhut@inst.strykercorp.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611252126.QAA11944@sphinx.Gsu.EDU>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, James Jones wrote:

> I need a tape drive that works under Linux with as little pain as possible.
> 
> Something at lease 1G or greater. I have fought and fought with a HP
> Colorado Tape drive for 3 weeks and still can't get it online. 

IMHO, HP SCSI 4mm dat tape drives work great.  Of the several I have, I like
the 2-4 GB (hardware compression) because the compression really improves the
read/write rate.

Jeff Hutchison        <jhut@inst.strykercorp.com>
Stryker Instruments
Kalamazoo, MI


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