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From: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com (Al Slater)
Subject: Re: DDS and/or DLT tape drives
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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..)