From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 26 23:48:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from argo.ripn.net (argo.ripn.net [195.19.26.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5CC37B407 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 23:48:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mnk@argo.ripn.net) Received: (from mnk@localhost) by argo.ripn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA07662; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:48:22 +0400 (MSK/MSD) Message-Id: <200107270648.KAA07662@argo.ripn.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and HP DLT1 To: dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:48:22 +0400 (MSK/MSD) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010726124939.B2869@dan.emsphone.com> from "Dan Nelson" at "Jul 26, 1 12:49:39 pm" From: Mary N Koroleva Organization: Russian Institute for Public Networks X-NCC-REGID: ru.rosniiros X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 According to Dan Nelson: > 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. Thank you for your help! -- Mary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message