Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:59:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Lohiser <jdl@modex.com> To: chad@dcfinc.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape drives Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.980910215148.14243C@modex.com> In-Reply-To: <199809100630.XAA08373@freebie.dcfinc.com>
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On Wed, 9 Sep 1998, Chad R. Larson wrote: > 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. > > Does anyone here have any experience with SCSI Travan drives under > FreeBSD? If so, how are they working out? > > -crl Seagate now has SCSI Travan (TR-4) drives that have hardware compression built it. I haven't had a chance to really work the drive as the server is still in the building stage, but in the tests that I have run, the drive seems really fast. PS I would recommend using a PCI SCSI card with these drives. The model without hardware compression worked fine with an ISA card, but the increased transfer rate of the hardware compression model seems to require a PCI card. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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