Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:33:33 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.ORG Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes Message-ID: <199601152133.WAA00688@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199601142359.AAA08768@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 15, 96 00:59:26 am
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> As chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu wrote: > > > > Back to one of the orginal questions...How about adding support > > for using 8mm video tapes? SunOS, BSD/OS, & Linux all support this. > > They're cheap and I've had wonderful success using them. I just wouldn't > > do a level 0 dump on one ;-) > > Despite of massive reliability problems related to those drives (the > MTBF seems to be less than 100 hours), an EXB-8201 does work for me. > Under plain FreeBSD 2.0.5. > cheers, J"org Exabytes: keep 'm clean and keep 'm cool. Then they work just OK (generally). At least my 8200 does. I was once remotely connected to qualification work of the 8200 and I've seen the testreports for environmental tests. Over 40 degr centigrade in the tapepath bets are off. Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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