From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 1:59: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uk2.kanda-systems.net (uk2.kanda-systems.net [193.195.117.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8401737B41C for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 01:59:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.kanda-systems.net (localhost.kanda-systems.net [127.0.0.1]) by uk2.kanda-systems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D723C395; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:04:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:04:35 +0100 (BST) From: jason+freebsd@kanda.com X-X-Sender: jason@uk2.kanda-systems.net Reply-To: jason+freebsd@kanda.com To: nickw@uidaho.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Inexpensive SCSI Tape drive? In-Reply-To: <03040158296146@CYPHER.turbonet.com> Message-ID: <20020403115951.C82078-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 nickw@uidaho.edu wrote: > I've been looking for an inexpensive SCSI tape drive (<$300) and have > found little. The only drive I found was the Seagate Hornet (10/20GB > Tavern) and I cannot find any good reviews on the drive. That drive is fine, no problems with FreeBSD or Linux. > sa0 at ncr0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 > sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > sa0: 10.000MB/s transfCopyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. It does tend to "shoe shine" on slow machines, particularly if your using software compression. /usr/ports/misc/team helps fix this. Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message