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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!newsbr.eunet.fr!usenet From: Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr (Frederic MARAND) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: whats a good external SCSI tape? Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:15:37 GMT Organization: Groupe SEDI / Agorus SA / OSI SARL Lines: 18 Message-ID: <54j67v$soq@newsbr.eunet.fr> References: <DzHp5B.6Bt.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> <54dhae$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.107.196.155 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote: >Tandberg 2.5 GB QIC are fine (the latter is for those like me who find >helical scan to be inherently horrible :). It seems many people dislike helical scan backup units, but I never could figure out why: we've sold tons of them, even to customers working in harsh environments (Sahara desert), and never got returns, while we got back several Archive streamers returns Could you explain why this dislike ? Thanks ------------------------- Frederic G. MARAND Agorus SA / OSI SARL Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr -------------------------