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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!hplntx!hplb!hpcpb!jocko.bri.hp.com!aslater From: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com (Al Slater) Subject: Re: DDS and/or DLT tape drives Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User) Message-ID: <EA0BqG.H2G@bri.hp.com> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 08:03:52 GMT Reply-To: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com References: <5klndq$h7d@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: jocko.bri.hp.com Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 22 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40718 igor vladimirovich roshchin (igor@students.uiuc.edu) wrote: : Hello! : Does anybody have experience with the $subject, first of all - DDS. : Are they supported nicely by FreeBSD? (2.1.7 or/and 2.2.1) : Any problems/concerns/advices ?? : THanks! Works fine from where I'm sitting. YMMV with some stuff like compression control / density codes. ISTR DLT wasn't a problem, although you'll definitely want to spend some time analysing what you hang it off the back of and throw data at it from -- the 4000/7000 are \hard\ to keep going at optimal rates. cheers, al. (not speaking for HP..)