From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 9 21:18:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC84414EEE for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 21:18:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA00679; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:46:32 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA35966; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:46:32 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990410134632.J2142@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:46:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Dan Janowski Cc: Joerg Micheel , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DDS-2/DDS-3 drives References: <19990410131624.H2142@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Dan Janowski on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 12:09:01AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 10 April 1999 at 0:09:01 -0400, Dan Janowski wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 9 April 1999 at 23:40:23 -0400, Dan Janowski wrote: >>> On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Joerg Micheel wrote: >>> >>> FreeBSD deals very well with DAT, and when there are problems it tells >>> you. As with any tape drive, my recommendation is to buy it from a >>> company that will be there when it breaks. >> >> I don't know if that helps much. I've had *very* bad experience with >> repairs to helical scan tapes. I tend to buy from the cheapest place, >> because when they fail they're not worth repairing. > > Hi Greg, > > Other comments accepted. Here I imply not repair, but replacement. Then replace it where it's cheapest :-) I'm seriously wondering whether I can be bothered with helical scan tapes, though. I've been using them for years, and they're the most unreliable part of the system by a long shot. 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-hardware" in the body of the message