Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:15:15 +0000 From: Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk> To: "David W. Alderman" <dave@mmrd.com>, Eric Lee Green <elgreen@iname.com> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: onStream? Message-ID: <19991112161515.48117@longacre.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.19991111144543.00ad2330@192.2.2.24>; from David W. Alderman on Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 02:49:31PM -0500 References: <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl> <199911102306.AAA24666@bowtie.nl> <99111106460800.32323@ehome.inhouse> <4.2.2.19991111144543.00ad2330@192.2.2.24>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 02:49:31PM -0500, David W. Alderman wrote: > When you say "helical-scan" don't you mean 8mm? I have had nothing but > trouble with DDS/DAT drives. I understand that some 8mm technologies are > very reliable. Is the VXA based on 8mm, DDS or something new? They have > been running the boiling-water gimmick in their ads, you know. :-) > I've looked up the Ecrix site and the drive looks very impressive - speed and reliability better than a DLT-4000 but at DAT price (for the drive, not the $80 tapes...). Is there anyone using this drive who can give me more information about it? Any problems with it? Does the 'variable speed' feature reduce the capacity of the tape? (as in floppy-tapes) How well does the compression work? (and does it pass through compressed files or bloat them like the DAT drive mentioned here? At the quoted 6MB/s, software compression would mean something cack like LZO on all but the fastest CPUs.) -- searle@longacre.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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