Travan 3 Parallel Tape Backup in FreeBSD 4.10

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005, Sebastian Uribe wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install an Imation Travan 3 parallel tape backup in a 
>FreeBSD 4.10 box. Has FreeBSD support for it?

My experience with Travan tape drives has been uniformly bad, and I would
avoid them almost as strongly as the old Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo
floppy tape drives.

Given the low cost of large external firewire and USB disks today, I would
recommend using them rather than tape.

Bill
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