Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 11:43:12 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@pegasus.com Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199708310213.LAA00788@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Aug 1997 17:15:39 MST." <199708310015.RAA00360@ns.feral.com>
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> >A 250meg capacity is awfully small today, and the tapes are too expensive. > >They're also excruciatingly slow. > > This isn't even 250Meg. It's QIC-120 (120Meg) or QIC-150. > The Viper 150 will happily read and write the 250 and 525MB extended-length tapes. (Yes I have one, yes, I have used these tapes). Whilst the criticism that these drives are "slow" and the tapes "expensive" is not entirely without basis, it's worth bearing in mind that these drives are *robust*, and properly stored the media are very stable. You won't find this in any current drive or media except (perhaps) a DLT. mike
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