From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 25 8:23: 8 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E5337B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:23:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.tenebras.com (laptop.tenebras.com [66.92.188.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 142F843F3F for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:23:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kudzu@tenebras.com) Received: (qmail 14857 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2003 16:23:01 -0000 Received: from sapphire.tenebras.com (HELO tenebras.com) (192.168.188.241) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Feb 2003 16:23:01 -0000 Message-ID: <3E5B9864.2000900@tenebras.com> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:23:00 -0800 From: Michael Sierchio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stacy Millions Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maxtor Firewire Drives References: <200302240959.03513.wes@softweyr.com> <20030224103601.L22218-100000@steeltoe.niceboots.com> <20030224205811.GD85610@hal9000.halplant.com> <20030224210152.GC26172@pir.net> <3E5A8C67.7070805@mitre.org> <3E5A91D2.70403@millions.ca> In-Reply-To: <3E5A91D2.70403@millions.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stacy Millions wrote: > In a previous life, I worked at a place were they expected to be able to > restore files after 25 years. We had quite a collection of tape drives. Yes, the medium in most cases will be (theoretically) readable long after there are no devices capable of reading it. That's the real problem with some archival materials. Paper tape (acid-free paper) looks pretty good... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message