From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 8 7:59:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D15A615504 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 07:58:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by Samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA28422; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:58:40 -0400 (EDT) To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP T4000s Tape Drive problems References: <199907072235.RAA14758@hostigos.otherwhen.com> User-Agent: SEMI/1.13.3 (Komaiko) FLIM/1.12.5 (Hirahata) Emacs/20.3 (i386-pc-solaris2.7) MULE/4.0 (HANANOEN) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.13.3 - "Komaiko") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Chris Shenton Date: 08 Jul 1999 10:58:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Mike Avery"'s message of "Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:30:22 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike> 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. On Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:30:22 -0500, "Mike Avery" said: Mike> Two words - door stop. Travan is evil and not to be trusted, no Mike> matter what the interface - or what the dealer says. I have one and it worked fine on FreeBSD-2.2.x: quite fast and data did come back. I used it manually or automagically with Amanda. My biggest complaint was the cost of media: $35-$30 a slice. Now under FreeBSD-3.1 the no-rewind device insists on rewinding so dumping multiple filesystems (or Amanda) overwrites data: worthless. I'll admit to not trying it since my lates cvsup and make world cycle. Would be nice to use it ocassionally, tho I use a 4xDDS-2 jukebox I found cheap at an auction house now for Amanda. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message