From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 14:51:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A2937B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 90BF5786E1; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:20:52 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:20:52 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011121092052.J76318@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120120938.M76318@monorchid.lemis.com> <007f01c17164$a3284c40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120121857.O76318@monorchid.lemis.com> <00a801c171a9$c5a8f2c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00a801c171a9$c5a8f2c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 Tuesday, 20 November 2001 at 10:57:25 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Greg writes: > >> Total failure. > > There's no such thing as "total failure." What actually occurred? In most cases, they were unable to transfer data. In two cases, there was mechanical failure. >> HP, AIWA, Sony, Conner. > > And all of them failed "totally"? To the point that a repair was not practical, yes. >> What would you replace them with? > > DLT is the usual choice. Look at the prices. >> It's a question of cost. > > If you don't want to pay for something better, you're in no position > to complain about what you are using. That is a stupid statement. Carried to its logical conclusion, you could never complain about anything if there was some really expensive alternative. >> But if disks were anywhere near as unreliable as tapes, people >> would be up in arms. > > Tapes don't have to be as reliable as disks. Nobody uses them for > anything except backups. Another stupid statement. If there's one thing that needs to be reliable, it's backups. >> Drive. > > How many times a day did you use the drive during 18 months? Once. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message