From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Feb 4 12:51:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19788 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA19758 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:51:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA14495 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:18:36 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id TAA00755; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:17:01 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199902041817.TAA00755@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... In-Reply-To: <19990204071532.08161@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Feb 4, 99 07:15:32 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 19:17:01 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As J Wunsch wrote... > As Mike Smith wrote: > > Aside from that, I tend to concur; if you want the data to last any > > length of time, 9-track or QIC is about the best you'll manage. > > DLT should be similar. DLT media is better than QIC media. Officially they state a 20 year shelf life, off the record 30 years. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message