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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:04:35 +0100 (BST)
From:      jason+freebsd@kanda.com
To:        nickw@uidaho.edu
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Inexpensive SCSI Tape drive?
Message-ID:  <20020403115951.C82078-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net>
In-Reply-To: <03040158296146@CYPHER.turbonet.com>

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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 nickw@uidaho.edu wrote:

> I've been looking for an inexpensive SCSI tape drive (<$300) and have
> found little.  The only drive I found was the Seagate Hornet (10/20GB
> Tavern) and I cannot find any good reviews on the drive.

That drive is fine, no problems with FreeBSD or Linux.

> sa0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0
> sa0: <Seagate STT8000N 3.22> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device
> sa0: 10.000MB/s transfCopyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.

It does tend to "shoe shine" on slow machines, particularly if your using
software compression.  /usr/ports/misc/team helps fix this.

Jason


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