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From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Exabyte on 386i: Possible?
Keywords: Exabyte 8mm Sun 386i DAT driver Apunix Coperico
Message-ID: <21909@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 2 Dec 90 03:49:30 GMT
Distribution: comp
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I'd like to add a high-capacity tape drive to my Sun 386i.  Has
anyone done this?  Is there any advantage aside from price of
DAT over 8mm?  Does the 386i's st driver handle 8mm or do I
need a custom driver?
 
A couple of companies I'm looking at: Coperico and Apunix.  The
latter has source code for a device driver and network backup
daemon, but they don't support the 386i since they don't have
any in house.  Has anyone hacked this driver to work on a 386i?
Apunix also provides a 1 year 24-hour exchange warranty. Their
price is considerably higher than Coperico's.
 
I'm currently backing up my net (about 1 Gb of disk total) onto
QIC-24, using 7 tapes with compression.  I do this after hours
just before I leave at night so that I don't disrupt work (the
tape drive locks the SCSI bus during tape motion), so this
means that it takes almost a couple of weeks to do a full
backup. I'd rather do a full backup nightly with the 8mm.
 
Please cc your replies to me in case I miss the newsgroup
reply.
 
Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us)


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