From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 5:22:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9040837B405 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 05:22:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 161Sdy-0002OT-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 07 Nov 2001 16:21:26 +0300 Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 16:21:26 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Subject: Backup Tapes - Advise sought Message-ID: <20011107162126.H66293@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gdTfX7fkYsEEjebm" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure. -- Milt Barber X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: XFCE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 4:18PM up 1 day, 19 mins, 5 users, load averages: 0.11, 0.21, 0.17 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 --gdTfX7fkYsEEjebm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I need to buy a tape drive. Some sales geek has suggested HP Surestore DAT4= 0 - a DDS-4 tape drive. I've gotten mixed up with this DDS and DLT stuff. What's the di= fference? I am not quite familiar with tapes. Does someone recommend something else different than the one here?=20 I also welcome any reasons supporting some particular type of tape drive. TIA -Wash S y s t e m s A d m i n i s t r a t o r -- ~\\_ =20 Odhiambo Washington \\\\ =20 Wananchi Online Ltd., `\\\\\ =20 1st Flr Loita Hse, Loita Street |\\\\\ =20 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE. \\\\\|__.--~~\ =20 Fax: 254 2 313985-9 _--~ / =20 Fax: 254 2 313922 /~ ////// _-~~~~' =20 E-mail: wash@wananchi.com ('-//////-// =20 URL : http://www.wananchi.com //////(((-) =20 GSM: 254 72 743 223 / 254 733 744 121 /////" =20 _///" =20 +++ Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant. -- Malcolm Smith --gdTfX7fkYsEEjebm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE76TVWn7LIsuxjem8RAsUGAJ4yp1K7l4cTNJr1qUzM4aWkoQDEbACgmybP 6AiIBNp5x5qxQqU2NwAOtME= =gvg0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gdTfX7fkYsEEjebm-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message