From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 10 00:40:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 701DA106568B for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:40:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D7D88FC0A for ; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0463A3836; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:40:41 +0700 (ICT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cs.ait.ac.th; h= references:subject:subject:in-reply-to:from:from:message-id:date :date:received:received:received; s=selector1; t=1260405641; x= 1262220041; bh=KnEB1lIb9WgMw8n5ZZ3VrFzzRNi17kyAISJBltHVWs0=; b=K QzWRPLaRWUpwMuOMZ8198W1a5p9+nsqMNbCCi0A9IcOn9fUAM7XBCEoJqe+drdeM smBH2ZmQnewrT6+kFXuptBSfI8T0P1X6WBNCzU7Zir9Pm+T15UfEuhL26lE6oP24 si/xul7HKRjhRAbk1IZbC8iqQ1dZb45RlITsxX7bJ0= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.ait.ac.th Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id K4CX4bA3rkgq; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:40:41 +0700 (ICT) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A356B3A3832; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:40:40 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBA0edrB006740; Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:40:39 +0700 (ICT) (envelope-from on) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:40:39 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <200912100040.nBA0edrB006740@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> From: Olivier Nicole To: dougs@dawnsign.com In-reply-to: (message from Doug Sampson on Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:50:04 -0800) References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP USB 2.0 Tape Drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:40:44 -0000 Hi Doug, > Does anyone have had positive or negative experience using these USB-based > DAT tape drives? Specifically, I am looking at the HP (Hewlett-Packard) I know that I am not really answering your question but here are a couple of thoughts that came to my mind when reading your post: - USB 2 should be able to sustain the transfer speed to stream your DAT drive, I checked that point; - I always considered DAT one of the worse tape solution myself, too sensitive to the physical conditions, too prone to errors, could never read a tape after 6 months; - why spending money in a 80GB tape drive when you can have 10TB of hard disk for the same price; I beleive you have a bunch of existing tapes that hold data you must read. Then I would plug my USB DAT to any operating system that supports it, transfer the data to some hard disc, and be done with the tapes. And if FreeBSD cannot use the tape drive, as it is a one time task only, I would go for some other OS. Good luck, Olivier