From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 8 13:54:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hudsucker.gamespot.com (hudsucker.gamespot.com [206.169.18.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43AC314FF9 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:53:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jsd@hudsucker.gamespot.com) Received: (from jsd@localhost) by hudsucker.gamespot.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA03455; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:54:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:54:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Drukman Message-Id: <199907082054.NAA03455@hudsucker.gamespot.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP T4000s Tape Drive problems In-Reply-To: <199907080218.VAA14937@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Reply-To: jsd@gamespot.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I've resolved backup problems in several shops by just ditching the >Travan drives. These weren't the cheapos, they were the >"professional" NS-8 and NS-20 series drives. Based on what you and a few others have said about general Travan crappiness, I will follow your advice and put this thing back in the cupboard from whence it came, and instead play around with this Exabyte 8500 I found. On a somewhat related note, does anybody have any strong preferences between DAT/DLT/Exabyte? I'm interested in all experiences, good or bad... Let me know. -- Jon Drukman Director of Technology GameSpot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message