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Date:      Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:34:47 +0300 (EEST)
From:      "Oleg V.  Naumann" <oleg@reis.zp.ua>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: SCSI tape drives
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980910103447.oleg@reis.zp.ua>
In-Reply-To: <199809100630.XAA08373@freebie.dcfinc.com>

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On 10-Sep-98 Chad R. Larson wrote:
> I've been using an HP DDS-2 4mm DAT drive quite successfully on a
> FreeBSD machine at my office.
> 
> I was browsing the Insight web site for SCSI tape drives under $600 for
> use at home, and found the expected 8mm and 4mm tapes.
> 
> However, I found that Segate, HP and a couple of others were selling
> Travan (TR-4) drives (4 GB native capacity in) SCSI versions for a couple
> of hundred bucks less than the 4mm DAT drives.

        Seagate Travan TR-4 (SCSI) do not properly detect eom (End Of Media).
So 
dump [0-9]auf /dev/nrst[0-9] /filesystem
        if your dump data large then 4GB (multitape dump) failed.

However, value of B option for Travan TR-4 unknown for me :-(

> 
> Does anyone here have any experience with SCSI Travan drives under
> FreeBSD?  If so, how are they working out?
> 
>       -crl
> --
> Chad R. Larson (CRL15)   602-953-1392   Brother, can you paradigm?
> chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net   
> DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207
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        With best wishes
        Oleg V. Naumann

P.S. Sorry for my bad English, my native language is Russian.

        Oleg


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