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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!george From: george@ee.ualberta.ca (Jason George) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive for backup. Date: 3 Apr 1996 15:32:31 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering Department Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ju5mf$7la@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <Doy3z5.K2o.0.raindrop.seaslug.org@raindrop.seaslug.org> <315AFF62.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <4jou17$9bk@cibnor2.cibnor.conacyt.mx> NNTP-Posting-Host: nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Larry Miller [DT] (lmiller@cibnor.cibnor.conacyt.mx) wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > : I think that for backup, where you'd like the media to also be somewhat > : robust and not self-destruct occasionally (4mm DAT is pretty fragile > : stuff, I've found!) then there's really only one choice: An 8mm Exabyte > : drive. > Jordan, out of curiousity, what sorts of failures have you personally seen > with 4mm DAT? Well, my name isn't Jordan, but Jason looks pretty close, though. I've seen more than enough 4mm cartridges whose tape has snapped and a couple whose tape has managed to weave itself into the mechanical guts of the drive. The 8mm Exabyte I use, on the other hand, works flawlessly as long as you clean it regularly. --Jason