From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 12 17:59:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C1614D57 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:59:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from ospf-wat.sentex.net (ospf-wat.sentex.net [209.167.248.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA06804; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:58:25 -0400 (EDT) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: evablunted@earthling.net ("Langa Kentane") Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best tape drive to buy Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 01:10:50 GMT Message-ID: <37b36f41.739411187@mail.sentex.net> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 Aug 1999 08:36:36 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_002F_01BC385F.F1B8CD00 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Can you guys recommend a tape drive for me to buy that will not be too = >much hassle to install and one that is best supported by FreeBSD I have been quite pleased with our Segate DDS3 DAT drive (12GIG uncompressed). No fuss, no muss... sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 sa0: Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device sa0: 7.812MB/s transfers (7.812MHz, offset 15) Not bad speed... DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Aug 12 20:54:39 1999 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd0s1a (/) to /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 75649 tape blocks on 0.01 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: DUMP: 75670 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s) DUMP: finished in 105 seconds, throughput 720 KBytes/sec DUMP: level 0 dump on Thu Aug 12 20:54:39 1999 DUMP: Closing /dev/nrsa0 DUMP: DUMP IS DONE ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Who is this 'BSD', and why should we free him?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message