In message <Pine.SOL.3.96.971107114506.18945A-100000@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
          "S.J. Borrill" <sjb42@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

: > Has anyone got suggestions of a suitable backup device to plug onto a RiscBSD
: > server with an Acorn scsi card fitted? Its for a school running a NC pilot
: > scheme for Xemplar. They suggested a syquest but school cannot get devices to
: > talk. Anyone with a better idea?

: You can't just plug in a syquest and go. You'll need to format it first.
: Though you should be able to tar directly to /dev/rsd0a or something in
: theory if you are not bothered about file structure. Is the Syquest
: recognised by the kernel at bootup?

I've got a WangDAT 1300 drive which works really quite well under BSD.  As
Stephen suggests, a simple tar (in this case to /dev/rst0) suffices for me. 
If you need anything more sophisticated, I'd make sure it is streamable.  My
SCSI card is a Cumana SCSI II (I know...).

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