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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!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Finding Reliable DAT Drives Date: 27 Apr 1997 09:08:11 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5jv51r$7nc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <kientzleE8v0Ly.5zp@netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39834 kientzle@netcom.com wrote: > I know that Joerg is pretty pessimistic about DAT in general, but I'm So this safes me from a full followup. :-) > * I've seen a couple of SCSI QIC drives that come close; > are they really any better? (They're no cheaper once you > factor in the $30 tapes) They are better since they avoid the helical scan problems (complicated mechanics). The cartridge price is basically a non-issue once you consider that the cartridges have about 10 times the lifetime of a DAT cassette. I'm still able to use 1990 vintage QIC-150 cartridges all day. (Large workstation vendors used to ship their software upgrades on them before the invention of the CD-ROM. So now, you can get piles of these tapes for free with a little luck. They are too small for backups, but good for data exchange still.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)