From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri May 7 11:23:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7203E14E46 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 11:23:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from feral.com (mjacob@feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA01552; Fri, 7 May 1999 11:19:43 -0700 Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 11:19:43 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Darryl Okahata Cc: Karl Denninger , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question - Onstream SCSI Streamer In-Reply-To: <199905071813.LAA14488@mina.sr.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I, too, have the OnStream drive, and it's best to think of it as a > "low-cost drive with a proprietary interface". Even though it has a > SCSI connector, it's not a tape drive in the traditional (SCSI) sense. > It'll take special drivers to talk to this puppy. > > If you're feeling brave and lucky, OnStream is selling "new" > internal Quantum DLT-2000XT's for $649 (15GB capacity, uncompressed ). > Note that these are "brand new" obsolete drives. You'd better read the > fine print (especially on warranty, shipping, and "defective products"), > but check out: I would not recommend the XT given the media incompatibilities they've been known to have. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message