From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 11 15:46:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.az.home.com (ha1.rdc1.az.home.com [24.1.240.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEFBB14BF2 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:46:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from elgreen@iname.com) Received: from ehome.local.net ([24.9.114.169]) by mail.rdc1.az.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990811224558.DIPA27077.mail.rdc1.az.home.com@ehome.local.net>; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:45:58 -0700 From: Eric Lee Green Organization: Myself @ Home To: mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: IDE tape backup suggestions Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:37:14 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99081115455601.05193@ehome.local.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: > Onstream are 30 GB plus. And there's an IDE version. Avoid the OnStream for the moment. I have a half dozen here and they will not work, believe me. They are so cheap because they omit a lot of the hardware that generates tape blocks and block checksums and etc., so the computer (software) side has to generate that stuff as part of the actual data stream. Sort of like the old floppy-controller based tape drives. I don't know if I'm allowed to say whether they're working on Linux drivers or not. If they are, presumably they'll be easy to port to FreeBSD. In the meantime, just repeat after me: "The BRU guys say wait on the OnStream" (Not that I'm officially speaking for the BRU guys, of course, I'm too low on the totem pole to make official statments :-). 'Nuff said. The Travan NS-20 tape drives do work just fine under Linux, I'd assume they would work just as well under FreeBSD but I've only tried the SCSI model under FreeBSD. Can't attest as to how the IDE version may or may not work. -- Eric (not speaking for the BRU guys!) -- Eric Lee Green http://members.tripod.com/e_l_green mail: e_l_green@hotmail.com ^^^^^^^ Burdening Microsoft with SPAM! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message