From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Jan 31 14:20:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01533 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:20:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01526 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:20:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id XAA09694; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:20:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA22361; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:17:43 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Message-ID: <19990131231743.04268@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:17:43 +0100 From: J Wunsch To: George Morgan Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Backup... Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <199901311310.IAA11956@sable.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199901311310.IAA11956@sable.cc.vt.edu>; from George Morgan on Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 08:10:49AM -0500 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As George Morgan wrote: > Thanks for all the suggestions about tape backups... But, if I'm > going to spend as much as a DLT drive for backup, I might as well > get a high capacity Magneto Optical drive. Then I have ultimate > reliability and random access. How is the magneto optical support > in BSD? Not much support needed. There used to be an od(4) driver previously, but i believe CAM can now handle those drives well enough as plain disks. Regarding ultimate reliability, my experience tells me that a DLT has a lower failure rate than a MO. I've seen MOs go to hell, where you couldn't read the data again from the medium. (At my previous employer, we've been using them a lot.) -- 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. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message