Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 09:26:34 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes Message-ID: <199601200826.JAA08840@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199601142359.AAA08768@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 15, 96 00:59:26 am
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J Wunsch writes: > > 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. Hmm. How do you define MTBF? I haven't had any trouble at all on my 8500 (I have, however, on SunOS and BSD/OS, but that looks like it's a driver problem, not a device problem). I've repeatedly heard that using real video tapes is a Bad Idea. Now that data quality tapes are available at substantially the same price, there is also no reason to do so. Greg
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