From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 26 10:51:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 577D337B408 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:51:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6QHndY13853; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:49:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:49:39 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Mary N Koroleva Cc: so@server.i-clue.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and HP DLT1 Message-ID: <20010726124939.B2869@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3B5FE05B.609A7575@i-clue.de> <200107261131.PAA16839@argo.ripn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200107261131.PAA16839@argo.ripn.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 26), Mary N Koroleva said: > According to Christoph Sold: > > Mary N Koroleva wrote: > > > Are there among us happy owners HP DLT or HP DLT1? ;-) > > > > > > If - yes, would you be so kind to share one's experiences of work > > > with them with me? > > > > DELL DLT1. In fact, all DLT 1 tape mechanisms are manufactured by > > Benchmark. Connect, power up, scan the scsi bus, and forget about > > the device. Just pop in a tape when you'll need it. Never had any > > tape read or write error, and best of all is you have to clean the > > tape only when the cleaning light blinks. This is the case after a > > few months of daily use. Single-file restore time needs less than > > five minutes. I'd never go back to DDS tapes. > > I worry about drivers for DLT: there is no mention of DLT in the man > for sa, mt, mtio. Are you sure that they support DLT? Absolutely positive. A scsi tape drive is a scsi tape drive. DLT, DLT1, LTO all work fine. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message