From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 19:00:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19913 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:00:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from modex.com (modex.com [209.57.82.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19908 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 19:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdl@modex.com) Received: (from jdl@localhost) by modex.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id VAA16415; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:59:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 21:59:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Lohiser To: chad@dcfinc.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape drives In-Reply-To: <199809100630.XAA08373@freebie.dcfinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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