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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!nsw1.news.telstra.net!sa.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: scsi tape recommendations Date: 14 Oct 1996 22:07:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 35 Message-ID: <53udjb$85v@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53nkk8$etp@miwok.nbn.com> <2e7_9610140138@caamora.caamora.com.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E jlm@caamora.caamora.com.au (jonathan l michaels) wrote: > dat's are like that, only the hp's are better than the low end ones. > > looks like i'll have to investigate the tandberg 1 or 2 gig streamers, jeorg > has not had any trouble with them. It's just since they don't use rotational heads, thus their entire mechanics is more robust, and the tape is less prone to being damaged. OTOH, the cartridges are more expensive than DAT. OTOH^2, if you've got access to the old tape pool of some company, you might get a dozen or more QIC-150 cartridges for free which are still fine for the smaller backups or data exchange with other parties. (There used to be allot of software updates etc. in the industry that has been shipped on QIC-150 cartridges before the invention of CD-ROMs. We've got a pile of at least 50 of them, most from IBM...) > i just can't understand what is going on with the tdc-3820 (qic-525 > streamer), it is just a peculiarity in freebsd every where else they > work a treat. > has anybody had any experiences with the 1 or 2 gig tandberg scsi > streamers ? is it a ``plugin and forget" type of solution ? See my other article. It's plug and play for FreeBSD-current, but not for 2.1.5 (my fault, i forgot to move the patch over there). I'm really interested in your test results for my patch! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)