Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:40:06 -0700 From: "Brent Wiese" <brently@bjwcs.com> To: <freebsd@celestial.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Newbie: Touchy Travan tape drive rewind problem Message-ID: <20031113003459.JRBA3322.fed1mtao01.cox.net@SAMBA> In-Reply-To: <20031112184841.GB65978@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
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I have to agree with Bill. I don't like the "me-too" postings, but in this case, I can't recommend highly enough dumping that Travan. I've never had one work for more than a year or so before dying various deaths. Get yourself a nice big 250GB USB/firewire drive and zip your backups tight. You'll be a lot happier. :) > -----Original Message----- > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003, Christophe wrote: > >I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an > ATA Travan > >tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing > >operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of > >timeout problem on rewind: > > A good general rule about using the Travan tape drives is -- don't. > > We used them for about a year until they started giving all > kinds of wierd > problems that appeared to be hardware related, timeouts, not > able to read > tapes after they were written, etc. > > Bill > -- > INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; > (206) 236-1676 > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ > > The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. > Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts > to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you > happen to > be one of the facts that needs altering. > -- Doctor Who, "Face of Evil" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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