exabyte tape unit

I've routinely gotten good 8200's for <$50 by searching DejaNews for them. I've happily paid $100 when I needed an 8500, more if it's an 8500C (hardware compression) and if I thought I needed another 8505XL, I'd happily pay $250 for one. The first of these drives I got was from an Exabyte employee who built them from the scrap box. I started using it in '91 and it still backs up about 10 GB every day. It's been quite solid when I've attempted to restore to a replacement drive, and, aside from software quirks, works as well as I need. I have spent MANY hours and days exercising, testing, and verifying with these drives and find them refreshingly reliable. I've never had a backup turn out to be unusable, nor have I lost any files due to media flaws or the drive's inability to recover the data. With the exception of the 8200, all the 8xxx series from Exabyte are SCSI-II, which means there's software to support them. On a separate SCSI channel from the main array, server backup under NT or Netware works VERY well with them. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Pechter &lt;pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org&gt; To: &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 8:27 PM Subject: Re: exabyte tape unit in I'll tomorrow?