Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 20:45:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes Message-ID: <199601201945.UAA01232@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199601200826.JAA08840@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 20, 96 09:26:34 am
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As Greg Lehey wrote: [Exabyte 8 mm drive problems] > Hmm. How do you define MTBF? Word by word. Mean time between failures. They are more on repair than operating. And not just a single drive. We consider them expensive /dev/null's by now. (Or FINO memory: first in, never out.) Most of the problems are of mechanical nature, btw. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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