From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 10 00:35:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18320 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tetragr.zaporizhzhe.ua (news.tetragr.zaporizhzhe.ua [194.44.20.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18295; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 00:35:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oleg@www.reis.zp.ua) Received: from www.tetragr.zaporizhzhe.ua (oleg@www.tetragr.zaporizhzhe.ua [194.44.20.6]) by tetragr.zaporizhzhe.ua (8.8.8/Relcom-2A-nov1) with ESMTP id KAA23256 ;Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:34:51 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from oleg@localhost) by www.reis.zp.ua (8.8.8/Relcom-2A-nov0.7) id KAA14710 ;Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:34:48 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199809100630.XAA08373@freebie.dcfinc.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:34:47 +0300 (EEST) Organization: ReIS Ltd. From: "Oleg V. Naumann" To: "Chad R. Larson" Subject: RE: SCSI tape drives Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Sep-98 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. Seagate Travan TR-4 (SCSI) do not properly detect eom (End Of Media). So dump [0-9]auf /dev/nrst[0-9] /filesystem if your dump data large then 4GB (multitape dump) failed. However, value of B option for Travan TR-4 unknown for me :-( > > Does anyone here have any experience with SCSI Travan drives under > FreeBSD? If so, how are they working out? > > -crl > -- > Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? > chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net > DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message With best wishes Oleg V. Naumann P.S. Sorry for my bad English, my native language is Russian. Oleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message