From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 21:41:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA00509 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00481 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 21:41:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-27.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.27]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA23232; Sat, 2 May 1998 23:41:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA02891; Sat, 2 May 1998 23:41:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199805030441.XAA02891@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Johann Visagie cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: DLT or AIT? In-reply-to: Message from Johann Visagie of "Sat, 02 May 1998 15:37:44 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 23:41:02 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Johann Visagie writes: > David Kelly wrote: > > > > If the AIT drive will use (in addition to the AIT tapes) the very common > > cheap 8mm digital tapes then the AIT would be an easy choice for me over > > the DLT. There are lots of backup jobs that "only" require 5G ($6 tape) > > that might not be done if you had to dig for a $40 tape. > > According to Seagate's AIT FAQ, they can't. :-( > > (http://www.seagate.com/support/tape/scsiide/sidewinder/faqs/ait_faq1.shtml) > > The reverse, however, is sometimes possible: Apparently "standard" 8mm > drives can read AIT tapes, if those tapes were recorded without the AIT > drive's hardware compression. http://www.seagate.com/tape/tapedat.shtml says DDS-3 drives will do DDS-1 and DDS-2. While the native capacity of DDS-3 (12G) is half the 8mm AIT (25G) the flexibility of a DDS-3 drive would win in most of my applications. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message