Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 23:41:02 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLT or AIT? Message-ID: <199805030441.XAA02891@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> of "Sat, 02 May 1998 15:37:44 %2B0200." <E0yVcU4-0003mb-00@ns.cityip.co.za>
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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
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