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From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: whats a good external SCSI tape?
Date: 10 Nov 1996 15:39:07 GMT
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Frederic MARAND <Frederic.Marand@osinet.fr> wrote:
>Some customers are interested by the performance numbers of the DLT,
>but don't want to buy an expensive product like Storage Manager.
>By the way, does someone have any performance numbers for DLTs under
>*BSD ?

Sorry, I haven't tracked this -- primarily since the box driving the
DLT is pretty clunky... :-(

>>>I know this is not a Netware forum, but I found none, and Novell's
>>>only answer is: this is an unsupported drive and it does not emulate a
>>>standard SCSI tape very successfully. How is it supported on FreeBSD ?
>>>Any specific changes to the standard SCSI tape driver ?
>
>>If this is a significant issue/problem for you, perhaps try loading
>>a different set of DLT firmware -- one of the variants that more closely
>>resembles a DAT, etc.  (?)
>Thanks for the idea. Do you know where I could find one, if it exists
>? My DLT wholesaler knows nothing of this, and only offers to take
>back the drives...

Try www.quantum.com for starters.  I think I initially downloaded them
from the "Quantum BBS" -- but I assume this is now 'net connected, etc.
There are *several* "personalities" available.  There are "readme"s
available for each one so you can see the particular application
domain.  No idea how significant the performance changes would be,
though.

If you hit  dead end, drop me a line and I'll dig through my archive for
them...

G'Luck!
--don