sun 8500's (5G 8mm) can be picked up for about $150 from news.  It works
for me.

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Chris Rupnik wrote:

> Hi
>  I got the sparc5 booting successfully now. I have two sparcs, a sparc 5
> and a sparc 10, with about 4 gigs of space total. What do you recommend
> for a tape backup? I tried on of those SCSI TR-4 Travan tape drives, but
> it would have so many scsi errors, it was unusable.
> 
>  I also tried a HP-1502 tape drive, with the same result. This is the
> full height DDS-1 / scsi I drive, and i expect that the scsi I part was
> the problem
> 
>  What do you recommend? I am guessing a DDS-3 is probably the best bet.
> 
>  Thanks
> 
> Chris
>