Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 10:12:58 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: dburr@POBoxes.com (Donald Burr) Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19970906101258.KU52967@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199708310213.LAA00788@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Aug 31, 1997 11:43:12 %2B0930 References: <199708310015.RAA00360@ns.feral.com> <199708310213.LAA00788@word.smith.net.au>
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As Mike Smith wrote: > Whilst the criticism that these drives are "slow" and the tapes > "expensive" is not entirely without basis, it's worth bearing in mind > that these drives are *robust*, and properly stored the media are very > stable. OTOH, QIC-150 media can often be gotten for free. Try to find a company that used to be a workstation reseller in the past, the workstation vendors used to ship their software updates on these media (d*mned CD-ROMs these days, you can only recycle them as coasters :). We've got a pile of ~ 50 media ourselves, and could even get more of them from a customer. (Alas, the latter tapes are `tainted' with sensitive data, so i can't offer them to third parties. And erasing them before handing them out is a so dreadful job that the< are no longer really `free' then. ;) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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