From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Jan 3 02:44:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA07820 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 02:44:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from silver.gn.iaf.nl (silver.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07815 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 02:44:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by silver.gn.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA25129; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 11:30:23 +0100 Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA12086 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Sun, 3 Jan 1999 11:25:33 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id AAA12377; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 00:46:25 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199901022346.AAA12377@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: DDS alternative In-Reply-To: <19990103100802.H66110@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jan 3, 99 10:08:02 am" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 00:46:25 +0100 (CET) Cc: spork@super-g.com, louie@TransSys.COM, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Greg Lehey wrote... > On Saturday, 2 January 1999 at 10:44:57 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > As spork wrote... > >> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > >>> Frequently. I read tapes written 5 years ago. That's the part that > >>> works :-) > >>> > >>>> I've heared to much horror stories about unreadable DAT tapes to > >>>> trust them... > >>> > >>> The trouble I have (and continue to have) is that the things have > >>> such a short life. I used to do a complete backup (4 hours tape > >>> motion) every night. Under those circumstances, the old DDS-1 drives > >>> lasted about 6 months, and the DDS-2 last about 18 months. > >> > >> We just switched to AIT drives. So far so good, has anyone run into > >> problems with those? The lifespan is supposed to be very comparable to > >> DLT, and the seek time is excellent... > > > > I've played with one once and it appears to work well. And it was very fast > > too. I can't comment on durability, but from looking at them I'd guess they > > are a whole lot better than DAT drives. Also the cartridges are more robust, > > as is the tape media. > > Who makes these drives? I haven't heard of them, so I suspect they > have some other name as well. The one I saw was produced by Sony IIRC. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message