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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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