Langa, 13aug99, 0700H
You cannot do anything with a recommendation if you cannot buy it in
your computershop. Better work this thing the other way around.
Ask the computershop, friends with computers, what is available.
Get the brand/model and main specifications. And ask again.
Ask the SUPPLIER this question, let him now that 'you are Linux'.
Eventually he will ask his supplier 'if it can be used with Linux'.
If you are in a place with no or little choice of special hardware
(or at ridiculous prices), consider alternatives.
Harddisks are getting cheap now, below $20/GB. All my essential data
is on an extra harddisk, now in storage with my backup-floppies.
Another solution I like is to use 'the old computer' to store the
backups. A parallel cable (cable between the printer ports) works
very well.
Or set up a simple network. Instead of using parallel-cable.
At 02:31 PM 3/24/97 +0200, Langa Kentane wrote:
>Can you guys recommend a tape drive for me to buy that will not be too much
>hassle to install and one that is best supported by FreeBSD
>
>Thanks in advace...
>
>Langa
>
Herman Aa.
>From a mountaintop on Cebu island, Philippines.
Seeing Linux in front, coconut-trees/sea/
next island, when looking out the Window.
