From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Dec 31 14:03:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24871 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:03:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.elpost.com ([193.15.1.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24864 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:03:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from johan@granlund.nu) Received: from phoenix.granlund.nu (t3o29p36.telia.com [194.236.215.36]) by mail.elpost.com (2.5 Build 2626 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA00691; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:02:16 +0100 Received: from localhost (johan@localhost) by phoenix.granlund.nu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA02376; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:00:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from johan@granlund.nu) Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:00:29 +0100 (CET) From: Johan Granlund To: Wilko Bulte cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" , joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu Subject: Re: DDS alternative In-Reply-To: <199812311924.UAA18718@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Louis A. Mamakos wrote... > > > As Chris Timmons wrote: > > > > > > > What sort of FreeBSD compatible HW do you recommend in lieue of DDS > > > > tape? > > > > Just to chime in on the other side, I've been using DAT tapes for quite a > > few years, starting with an Archive Python DDS-1 drive and lately with a > > DDS-2 Archive/Seagate 4 slot changer. These drives have proven to be > > reliable for me in a fairly light duty cycle application. I also just > > picked up (at work) an HP DDS-3, 6 slot changer. This looks pretty > > sweet, with DDS-3 giving you 12GB (about 24GB compressed capacity) per > > tape. > > > > The media is pretty cost-effective, which you should be sure to take > > into account when comparing the alternatives. > > Ever tried to read a tape written a year ago? I've heared to much horror > stories about unreadable DAT tapes to trust them... After getting four drives failing for me in the same month i am somewhat sceptical of them. It was 2 DDS-3 and one DDS drive at work, and my private DDS-2 drive. All four was wangdat drives. The 2 DDS-3 drives was run every night, but got read errors when i verified the backup. The drives was less than 1 year old when we returned them for a DLT drive. The DDS-[1-2] drives was a couple years old but not used much. And Yes i was using a cleaning tape regulary :-) /Johan > > Wilko > _ ______________________________________________________________________ > | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl > |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl > ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message