Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 10:43:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@pegasus.com Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970831104029.307B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199708310213.LAA00788@word.smith.net.au>
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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
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