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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive for backup. Date: 6 Apr 1996 14:27:44 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4k5v10$167@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Doy3z5.K2o.0.raindrop.seaslug.org@raindrop.seaslug.org> <315AFF62.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <4jou17$9bk@cibnor2.cibnor.conacyt.mx> <DpF1uC.HHH@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> 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 0.9.3 peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much) writes: > But maybe one should not expect high quality from DAT-tapes, but simply > the cheapest avaliable reliable tape technology... [Horror story deleted] Which drive was it? A WangDAT? We are using an HP-DAT regularly at work, and despite one trashed cassette (the tape must have been jamming near the head, and unloading the cassette teared it apart), i haven't seen any other failures with them. Compared with the two Exabyte 8 mm drive we're also having around, the latter look just like expensive /dev/null's. :-) Of course, one needs to know that a DAT tape is quite more sensible than, say a QIC cartridge, so we cycle through 7 tapes per week. Should one of them fail, this won't be a catastrophic failure. To all HP-DAT owners: turn on switch 2 before mounting the drive. It allows to software-override the hardware compression. If you don't, compression will always be turned off. -- 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. ;-)