Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 08:41:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QIC-80 tape driver sucks.. Message-ID: <199509060641.IAA02952@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199509051730.NAA03671@mail.htp.com> from "dennis" at Sep 5, 95 01:30:20 pm
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As dennis wrote: > > Low cost tape is important for another reason, that is it gives you the > ability to move large volumes from one site to another (home to work at > minimum) when dial downloading is unacceptable. For this, you need to buy > more than 1 tape drive which multiplies the effect of low cost drives. I didn't vote against low-cost tapes, only against floppy tapes. Btw., how does your scenario multiply the effect? I've always been exchanging my QIC-150 cartridges with other sites. I've got them even from California, carrying FreeBSD's CVS tree. Don't be blind, even a wt-style tape is in the same price region like some floppy tapes, but is much better. (60 MB QIC-24 cartridges) You can find QIC drives in many machines, while the floppy tape crap is PC-only. (I refuse to apply the term QIC to floppy tapes, even though they are also quarter-inch cartridges.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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