Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 12:55:20 -0600 From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format? Message-ID: <19991213125520.A567@Denninger.Net> In-Reply-To: <19991213192545.D636@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 07:25:45PM %2B0100 References: <199912130738.IAA28004@freebsd.dk> <199912131731.KAA44607@harmony.village.org> <19991213192545.D636@yedi.iaf.nl>
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On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 07:25:45PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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 ;-) Well I never have had any desire to do so EITHER, but the problem is that one project I'm being sucked into is replacing NT-style machines with FreeBSD/Samba ones (quite a nice niche application for small offices, natch) and the problem is those folks are VERY cost-conscious. As in the $100 price difference for a DAT drive plus the extra couple hundred for the SCSI controller is too much. Yeah, I know IDE disks suck too. They don't care, and in this application the performance difference won't be noticable either. Thus, the question. BTW, I have older HP DAT drives (4 & 8gb models) that have several YEARS of active use on them, and other than using a cleaning tape when the front panel "clean me" light flashes I've NEVER had ANY problem with them. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) Web: http://childrens-justice.org Isn't it time we started putting KIDS first? See the above URL for a plan to do exactly that! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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