Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:34:47 +0300 (EEST) From: "Oleg V. Naumann" <oleg@reis.zp.ua> To: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: SCSI tape drives Message-ID: <XFMail.980910103447.oleg@reis.zp.ua> In-Reply-To: <199809100630.XAA08373@freebie.dcfinc.com>
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On 10-Sep-98 Chad R. Larson wrote:
> I've been using an HP DDS-2 4mm DAT drive quite successfully on a
> FreeBSD machine at my office.
>
> I was browsing the Insight web site for SCSI tape drives under $600 for
> use at home, and found the expected 8mm and 4mm tapes.
>
> However, I found that Segate, HP and a couple of others were selling
> Travan (TR-4) drives (4 GB native capacity in) SCSI versions for a couple
> of hundred bucks less than the 4mm DAT drives.
Seagate Travan TR-4 (SCSI) do not properly detect eom (End Of Media).
So
dump [0-9]auf /dev/nrst[0-9] /filesystem
if your dump data large then 4GB (multitape dump) failed.
However, value of B option for Travan TR-4 unknown for me :-(
>
> Does anyone here have any experience with SCSI Travan drives under
> FreeBSD? If so, how are they working out?
>
> -crl
> --
> Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm?
> chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net
> DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207
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With best wishes
Oleg V. Naumann
P.S. Sorry for my bad English, my native language is Russian.
Oleg
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