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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Does Archive Viper 150 SCSI tape work reliably? Date: 1 May 1996 10:53:20 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 49 Message-ID: <4m7cag$ak@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4m5tjq$gq3@yama.mcc.ac.uk> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Bill Nutt (bill@winu.fa.umist.ac.uk) wrote: : Hi, : as the subject line says....does it work? : When trying to tar to it, my machine hung. I always used to get this under : Linux before the drivers improved. I'm using an Adaptec 2742AT controller, : which works great with 2.1-RELEASE apart from any tape access. : When the kernel boots, it tells me the Archive 150 is a "known rogue", : so can I expect very much? Has anyone else got this drive to work? : I know its a crap old drive, but its the only backup I (used to) have at the : moment (until I graduate this Summer and can afford REAL hardware!) : Hopefully someone, somewhere has this drive working reliably - I'm now using : my FreeBSD box on a final year project - hence backups would be a good idea : ;o) I had a problem with this drive on 386bsd-0.1, but only in that it couldn't stream the data to the drive fast enough. Since then (four patch kits, FreeBSD-1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2-SNAP), I've never had a problem. : I'd like to add my sentiments to the serious (for once!) discussion between : Linux and FreeBSD as well. As someone who always used to go and get the : latest linux kernel source (hoping for better SCSI reliability ;o) I must say : FreeBSD is a breeze. It *is* faster, and more secure, than linux was, : and all in all feels more integrated, since the development team are more : co-ordinated than their linux counterparts. Talking about sentiments, I tried to install Linux once... couldn't massage llio onto my disk ! : Thanks guys (and gals??) for a wonderful operating system. : I think I'm in love with FreeBSD ;o) : (the truly HELPFUL responses in the newsgroups are another welcome bonus!) : thanks again, : --Bill Nutt : --Final Year Electronic Systems Engineering MEng : --UMIST, Manchester, England : mail: bill@winu.fa.umist.ac.uk -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....