From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Apr 7 03:21:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA04596 for doc-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA04527 Sun, 7 Apr 1996 03:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA00182; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 12:21:09 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA01146; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 12:21:08 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA17288; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 11:52:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604070952.LAA17288@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Archive Anaconda Tape drive 1.35GB && Adaptec 1542CF To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 11:52:44 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604070235.SAA02930@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Apr 6, 96 06:35:12 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > i sent a detailed description of the drive to freebsd-hackers > (or was it questiosn?) around march 13th. Perhaps we should start a ``Tape drive FAQ''? Many people are confused about the different tape drives, their subtleties (like for the Anaconda, or the switches on the HP-DAT), their relative technical merits, and the status and quality of FreeBSD supporting the different kinds of drives. -- 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. ;-)