Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 00:18:30 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu Subject: Re: DDS alternative Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9901020017170.17111-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <19990101113324.Z39598@freebie.lemis.com>
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We just switched to AIT drives. So far so good, has anyone run into problems with those? The lifespan is supposed to be very comparable to DLT, and the seek time is excellent... Charles On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > Frequently. I read tapes written 5 years ago. That's the part that > works :-) > > > I've heared to much horror stories about unreadable DAT tapes to > > trust them... > > The trouble I have (and continue to have) is that the things have > such a short life. I used to do a complete backup (4 hours tape > motion) every night. Under those circumstances, the old DDS-1 drives > lasted about 6 months, and the DDS-2 last about 18 months. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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