From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 1 17:03:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA05272 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA05265 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 17:03:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA14588; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:31:54 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701020101.LAA14588@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Are HP DAT drives more unreliable than others? In-Reply-To: <199612312211.OAA24527@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Dec 31, 96 02:11:10 pm" To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:31:53 +1030 (CST) Cc: dave@persprog.com, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, aat81@dial.pipex.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan M. Bresler stands accused of saying: > > who makes high capacity QIC drives anymore? > archive made several models. they were bought by > conner and that seemed to end their production of > high capacity QIC drives. Tandberg. > > Aren't DLT's very reliable? For high capacity applications, I > > thought DLT's were considered best. > > sopposed to be very good. just be careful with the 'hook' > that grabs the leader from the cartidge. Oh no; you're telling me that DLT's are derived from the TK50??! 8) > jmb -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[