From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 00:24:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA16758 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:24:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from firewall.scitec.com.au (fgate.scitec.com.au [203.17.180.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA16707 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john.saunders@scitec.com.au) Received: by firewall.scitec.com.au; id RAA06740; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:24:20 +1000 (EST) Received: from mailhub.scitec.com.au(203.17.180.131) by fgate.scitec.com.au via smap (3.2) id xma006730; Thu, 10 Sep 98 17:23:57 +1000 Received: from saruman (saruman.scitec.com.au [203.17.182.108]) by mailhub.scitec.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA15904; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:23:40 +1000 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:23:39 +1000 Message-ID: <01BDDCDF.C036B370.john.saunders@scitec.com.au> From: John Saunders To: "'chad@dcfinc.com'" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: SCSI tape drives Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:23:38 +1000 Organization: SCITEC LIMITED X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, September 10, 1998 4:31 PM, Chad R. Larson [SMTP:chad@freebie.dcfinc.com] wrote: > However, I found that Segate, HP and a couple of others were selling > Travan (TR-4) drives (4 GB native capacity in) SCSI versions for a couple > of hundred bucks less than the 4mm DAT drives. > > Does anyone here have any experience with SCSI Travan drives under > FreeBSD? If so, how are they working out? They work well and seem fast enough for a tape drive. I haven't had to restore from one yet (touch wood) so can't say if they are reliable, although compares work OK. I suspect they are more reliable than 4mm but less than 8mm. The big problem is cost of the tapes. In Australia they cost about 3 times the price of DAT tapes for about the same capacity. Cheers. -- . +-------------------------------------------------------+ ,--_|\ | John Saunders mailto:John.Saunders@scitec.com.au | / Oz \ | SCITEC LIMITED Phone +61294289563 Fax +61294289933 | \_,--\_/ | "By the time you make ends meet, they move the ends." | v +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message