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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:08:31 -0600
From:      Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        Courtney Thomas <ccthomas@flash.net>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20011129080831.A25239@luke.immure.com>
In-Reply-To: <000401c178a2$c3206600$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:54:59PM -0800
References:  <20011128091017.A89511@luke.immure.com> <000401c178a2$c3206600$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:54:59PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Bob Willcox [mailto:bob@immure.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 7:10 AM
> >To: Courtney Thomas
> >Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Anthony Atkielski; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD
> >
> >One further note: In my experience the newer Mammoth Exabyte drives (I
> >haven't tried a Mammoth2 yet) are _much_ better than all of the other
> >8mm and 4mm drives that I have used. These have a higher capacity (a
> 
> So, have you seen the new VXA drives that Exabyte bought from Ecrix?
> (see http://www.exabyte.com/company/press/releases.cfm)  they are
> touted to be Mammoth-killers.

No I haven't. But from Exabyte's press release that you pointed to,
it sounds more like they will be positioning them to replace DDS (4mm)
drives, not the Mammoths.

Bob

-- 
Bob Willcox             Boucher's Observation:
bob@vieo.com               He who blows his own horn always plays the music
Austin, TX                 several octaves higher than originally written.

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