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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 10:43:13 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
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Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD? 
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On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, 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.

Alas, my viper appears to be failing.  It streams nicely winding
one direction, but chugs going the other with data rates dropping
to about 50K/s from over 100K/s when nicely streaming.   :(

-john