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#! rnews 2248 bsd 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: 13 Oct 96 21:00:22 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: scsi tape recommendations Message-ID: <2e7_9610140138@caamora.caamora.com.au> References: <53nkk8$etp@miwok.nbn.com> X-FTN-To: ekilroy@orbitsw.com Organization: Caamora, Clovelly NSW Australia Lines: 43 ekilroy@orbitsw.com wrote in a message to All: eo> From: ekilroy@orbitsw.com (E.A. Kilroy, III) eo> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 08:24:43 GMT >jlm@caamora.caamora.com.au (jonathan l michaels) wrote: >this leaves me with a freebsd box without a tape drive, does anybody >have any recommendations. something along the lines of the tandberg >would be nice, i have a library to maintain so a qic-525 type that eo> Hi. I'm using HP SCSI DDS (DAT) drives and they really are eo> plug-n-play. I've got DDS-1 non-compressing (90m=2GB), compressing eo> (90m~=4GB), and DDS-2 compressing (120m~=8GB) drives that I swap eo> back and forth from HP3000, HP9000, NTServer, and FreeBSD eo> depending on what I need at the time. Lots of data in an itty eo> bitty space, but a word of warning: eo> NEVER TRUST ANYTHING IMPORTANT TO ONLY ONE DDS TAPE eo> AND ALWAYS VERIFY THE TAPE AFTER WRITING IT. eo> That's more than a word, isn't it? I don't know if QIC, 8mm or eo> others are much better or worse, but DDS (DAT) has got to be near 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. 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 ? 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>