From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 9 21:10:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from aaka.3skel.com (3skel-inch-rtr.3skel.com [207.240.212.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A240F151D4 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 21:10:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danj@3skel.com) Received: from fnur.3skel.com (fnur.3Skel.COM [192.168.0.8]) by aaka.3skel.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA05967; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:09:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from danj@3skel.com) Received: from localhost (danj@localhost) by fnur.3skel.com (8.9.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id AAA27429; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:09:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:09:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Janowski To: Greg Lehey Cc: Joerg Micheel , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DDS-2/DDS-3 drives In-Reply-To: <19990410131624.H2142@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 9 April 1999 at 23:40:23 -0400, Dan Janowski wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Joerg Micheel wrote: > > > > FreeBSD deals very well with DAT, and when there are problems it tells > > you. As with any tape drive, my recommendation is to buy it from a > > company that will be there when it breaks. > > I don't know if that helps much. I've had *very* bad experience with > repairs to helical scan tapes. I tend to buy from the cheapest place, > because when they fail they're not worth repairing. Hi Greg, Other comments accepted. Here I imply not repair, but replacement. Dan -- Dan Janowski danj@3skel.com Triskelion Systems, Inc. Bronx, NY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message