From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 15:33: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hostigos.otherwhen.com (mavery-gw.pernet.net [205.229.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCDA14BFC for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:32:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mavery@mail.otherwhen.com) Received: from mail.otherwhen.com (mail.2.229.205.in-addr.arpa [205.229.2.19] (may be forged)) by hostigos.otherwhen.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA14758 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:35:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199907072235.RAA14758@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Received: from PORKY/SpoolDir by mail.otherwhen.com (Mercury 1.45); 7 Jul 99 17:33:02 -0600 Received: from SpoolDir by PORKY (Mercury 1.45); 7 Jul 99 17:30:27 -0600 From: "Mike Avery" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:30:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: HP T4000s Tape Drive problems Reply-To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com In-reply-to: <4.1.19990707144132.0095aad0@hudsucker.gamespot.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 7 Jul 99, at 15:16, Jon Drukman wrote: > I've got one of these HP Colorado T4000s SCSI tape drives on my FreeBSD > 3.1-RELEASE system and it's driving me crazy. It uses Travan TR-4 tapes. > ideas appreciated. Two words - door stop. Travan is evil and not to be trusted, no matter what the interface - or what the dealer says. If your dealer will take it back, trade it in. Otherwise, sell it on ebay (if they're still up). And either way, get a nice DAT drive, or go to a surplus house and get a nice DLT at a good price. Mike ====================================================================== Mike Avery MAvery@mail.otherwhen.com (409)-842-2942 (work) ICQ: 16241692 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day: Ken's Law: A flying particle will seek the nearest eye. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message