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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!caamora!jlm From: jlm@caamora.caamora.com.au (jonathan l michaels) Date: 18 Oct 96 23:58:18 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: scsi tape recommendations Message-ID: <37a_9610191020@caamora.caamora.com.au> References: <53udjb$85v@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-FTN-To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de Organization: Caamora, Clovelly NSW Australia Lines: 56 j@uriah.heep.sax.de wrote in a message to All: > 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 live close to the water and humidity is a real killer .. the tdc-3820 & tdc3660 have been completely reliable. others with dat and 4 mm stuff suffer badly with humidity and corrupted tape fs's. a friend of mine once said that the day the dat manufactures take the rest of the vcr technology and impliment it then dats will be as reliable as home vcrs. but they will always have the problems inherant with the narrow media and the stresses associated with the high (relataive to tape movement and head acceleration) speed of the transportation mechanism. > 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). did, jeorg. thanks, it made my day > I'm really interested in your test results for my patch! me too, maybe i'm just a bit more interested than you, grin. i just need to clean up an os/2 client installation in preperation for rehousing the bbs and mailer ... just a few things to do before lunch .. grin. thank you for your help regards ... jonathan EMail: jlm@caamora.com.au -- Caamora (InterNet Services) __________________________________________ PO Box 2036 Clovelly West NSW 2031 Australia data +61 2 96659249 ------------------------------------------------- <jlm@caamora.com.au>