Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:25:45 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format? Message-ID: <19991213192545.D636@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199912131731.KAA44607@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:31:31AM -0700 References: <199912130738.IAA28004@freebsd.dk> <199912131731.KAA44607@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:31:31AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <199912130738.IAA28004@freebsd.dk> Soren Schmidt writes:
> : > Anything else I should know offhand other than "plug it in and use dump like
> : > everything else"?
> :
> : Not really...
>
> Actually yes. There is one thing you should know. The ata tape
> drives tend to be more flakey than their scsi brotheren. This isn't
> to say a specific drive won't be reliable, but in general I've found
> that they are fussier and require more care and feeding than my old
> Exebyte drives (Which should tell the old users of the 8200 and 8500
> something here).
It does, yes. I never had any desire to go for IDE tapes but I have now
filed the idea as insane ;-)
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