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Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:33:33 +0100 (MET)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199601142359.AAA08768@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 15, 96 00:59:26 am
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> As chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu wrote:
> > 
> >         Back to one of the orginal questions...How about adding support
> > for using 8mm video tapes? SunOS, BSD/OS, & Linux all support this.
> > They're cheap and I've had wonderful success using them. I just wouldn't
> > do a level 0 dump on one ;-)
> 
> Despite of massive reliability problems related to those drives (the
> MTBF seems to be less than 100 hours), an EXB-8201 does work for me.
> Under plain FreeBSD 2.0.5.

> cheers, J"org

Exabytes: keep 'm clean and keep 'm cool. Then they work just OK
(generally). At least my 8200 does.

I was once remotely connected to qualification work of the 8200 and
I've seen the testreports for environmental tests. Over 40 degr 
centigrade in the tapepath bets are off.

Wilko
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