Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:38:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drive Recommendations? Message-ID: <19981223143817.Y85005@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981219214449.A13107@drwho.xnet.com>; from Michael Maxwell on Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 09:44:49PM -0600 References: <19981219214449.A13107@drwho.xnet.com>
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On Saturday, 19 December 1998 at 21:44:49 -0600, Michael Maxwell wrote: > I'm looking for a SCSI tape drive that is well supported in BSD and > won't completely break my budget. I like the Exabyte 8mm tape drives, > and the added benefit of the low cost tapes, but the drives are a bit > too costly for me. So I wonder if anyone could toss up a few suggestions > for *RELIABLE* tape drives (minimum 2GB per tape, preferably more). The silence is deafening, isn't it? The question is ``reliable''. I find most tape units unreliable. At the moment I'm still using DDS drives, but I haven't had any that have survived more than two years, and refurbishing seems to be a waste of money. General consensus is that Travan drives are even worse than DDS or Exabyte, but that may be prejudice. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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