Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 15:37:44 +0200 (SAT) From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: dkelly@HiWAAY.net (David Kelly) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DLT or AIT? Message-ID: <E0yVcU4-0003mb-00@ns.cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199805020115.UAA24819@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "May 1, 98 08:15:04 pm"
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David Kelly wrote: > > If the AIT drive will use (in addition to the AIT tapes) the very common > cheap 8mm digital tapes then the AIT would be an easy choice for me over > the DLT. There are lots of backup jobs that "only" require 5G ($6 tape) > that might not be done if you had to dig for a $40 tape. According to Seagate's AIT FAQ, they can't. :-( (http://www.seagate.com/support/tape/scsiide/sidewinder/faqs/ait_faq1.shtml) The reverse, however, is sometimes possible: Apparently "standard" 8mm drives can read AIT tapes, if those tapes were recorded without the AIT drive's hardware compression. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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