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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!wizard.pn.com!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!usenet.cisco.com!usenet From: "Keith A. Tomkins" <ktomkins@cisco.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Hard drive and tape drive questions Date: 20 Jun 1996 19:43:18 GMT Organization: cisco.com Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4qc9km$cl9@cronkite.cisco.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: swing.cisco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-URL: news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc I am currently running FreeBSD 2.1 on a 486-100. I am thinking about upgrading my system to a pentium system which means I need to think about the new disk system I want. Has anyone out there done a comparison on the same or similar systems to see what the performance differences are between SCSI and EIDE disk systems? I am using this as a single user system, so there are not a lot of processes running. I am currently using an Archive Viper tape drive on the SCSI card to do my backups. I was considering getting on of the new Travan drives to replace it. Are they supported under 2.1? I looked at the FAQ on the support page, but I didn't see them specifically mentioned under supported tape drives. Do they just look like an IDE tape drive? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Keith -- ***************************************************************************** * Keith A. Tomkins + Cisco Systems, Inc. + || || * * Phone (408) 526-8373 + Workgroup Business Unit + || || * * Pager (408) 553-5705 + 170 W. Tasman Dr. + |||| |||| * * E-mail: + San Jose, CA 95134-1706 + ..:||||||:..:||||||:.. * * ktomkins@cisco.com + + Cisco Systems Inc. * *****************************************************************************