Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 13:45:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Onstream? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003051344210.66353-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <89tjbu$2ji2$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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You see- this why I dropped the notion of supporting the earlier unit- if there's one with a real SCSI i/f, why bother? I mean, yes, it'll cost more, but my take on that is "Don't get cheap on your backups". On 5 Mar 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Alan Batie <batie@rdrop.com> wrote: > > > I just got an onstream scsi tape drive only to discover that I should've > > checked the archives because it don't work. > > Depends on the drive. If you got an Echo drive (SCxx), you're right. > The ADR drives--yes, they all use ADR tape technology, but confusingly > there's also a model line called "ADR"--on the other hand, are > ordinary SCSI drives, according to the OnStream representative I > talked to at CeBIT. For instance, they're certified to work with > the plain Linux SCSI tape driver. > > A few days ago I asked whether anybody's running an ADR50 successfully > off a FreeBSD box but received no response. Actually I'm not sure > the ADR50 is in the stores yet. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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