From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 15:10: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8386A37B405; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 15:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fAKN9uf02999; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:09:56 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <013601c17218$7877e730$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120120938.M76318@monorchid.lemis.com> <007f01c17164$a3284c40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120121857.O76318@monorchid.lemis.com> <00a801c171a9$c5a8f2c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011121092052.J76318@monorchid.lemis.com> Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 00:09:49 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg writes: > In most cases, they were unable to transfer data. Unable to transfer between drive and SCSI adapter card? That doesn't sound like a hardware problem. > Look at the prices. You get what you pay for. Zip drives are cheaper than DDS tape, too. > Carried to its logical conclusion, you could never > complain about anything if there was some really > expensive alternative. Agreed. > If there's one thing that needs to be reliable, > it's backups. Backups only have to be reliable for a limited time, not forever. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message