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From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>
To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD
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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

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