From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 10 18:03:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11920 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11911 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:03:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id DAA27806; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 03:03:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 03:03:32 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Farkas Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI tape drives References: <199809101359.GAA23021@deal1.bogs.org> <35F7E14C.8242BF56@speednet.com.au> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 11 Sep 1998 03:03:31 +0200 In-Reply-To: Andy Farkas's message of "Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:25:17 +1000" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id SAA11916 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andy Farkas writes: > User GregGreg Shenaut wrote: > > : Does anyone here have any experience with SCSI Travan drives under > > : FreeBSD? If so, how are they working out? > Whether or not it was my fault, I left a AU$50 tape in one of these > drives for a couple of days, and when I went to do a backup, I was > informed by the software (amanda) that the tape was unusable. When I > pulled the tape out of the drive and looked at the surface of the tape, > it had creases on it from where the tape-head was resting on the tape! Hmm... My Travan streamer gets *very* hot (though not hot enough to scold), and even when idle, it's noticeably hotter than some of my hard disks, so I never leave tapes in it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message