From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 00:30:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17693 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:30:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from proxyb1-atm.san.rr.com (proxyb1-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17685 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:30:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erich@niobium.compecon.com) Received: from niobium.compecon.com (dt083n8e.san.rr.com [204.210.25.142]) by proxyb1-atm.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21205; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:29:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <35F77FFF.C8DEBE2D@niobium.compecon.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:30:07 -0700 From: unsafe at any speed X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chad@dcfinc.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape drives References: <199809100630.XAA08373@freebie.dcfinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chad R. Larson wrote: > > I've been using an HP DDS-2 4mm DAT drive quite successfully on a > FreeBSD machine at my office. > > I was browsing the Insight web site for SCSI tape drives under $600 for > use at home, and found the expected 8mm and 4mm tapes. > > 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? I occasionally use a Seagate 4GB (native) Tr-4 drive attached to the 2940 on my 2.2.7-stable system. It works like a champ, but there are things to consider: - the tapes are really expensive ($30-40 ea.) compared to DAT - it's slower, not sure by how much exactly, maybe half as fast as DDS-2 - I think the Travan drives generally don't have compression built in; I know mine doesn't. So it doesn't take too many tapes before you wish you had a DAT instead. :) hope this helps, Eric Hedstrom erich@compecon.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message