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Date:      Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:48:22 +0400 (MSK/MSD)
From:      Mary N Koroleva <mnk@ripn.net>
To:        dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and HP DLT1
Message-ID:  <200107270648.KAA07662@argo.ripn.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010726124939.B2869@dan.emsphone.com> from "Dan Nelson" at "Jul 26, 1 12:49:39 pm"

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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

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