From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 5 23:53:48 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA03240 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 23:53:48 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA03199 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 23:52:02 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA05506 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 08:51:16 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA02497 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 08:51:16 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id IAA02952 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 08:41:14 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509060641.IAA02952@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: QIC-80 tape driver sucks.. To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 08:41:13 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199509051730.NAA03671@mail.htp.com> from "dennis" at Sep 5, 95 01:30:20 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1032 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)