Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:56:58 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Travan 3 Parallel Tape Backup in FreeBSD 4.10 Message-ID: <20050202225657.GB82546@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <42014DFB.2010907@dc.uba.ar> References: <42014DFB.2010907@dc.uba.ar>
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On Wed, Feb 02, 2005, Sebastian Uribe wrote: > >Hi, > > I'm trying to install an Imation Travan 3 parallel tape backup in a >FreeBSD 4.10 box. Has FreeBSD support for it? My experience with Travan tape drives has been uniformly bad, and I would avoid them almost as strongly as the old Colorado Memory Systems Jumbo floppy tape drives. Given the low cost of large external firewire and USB disks today, I would recommend using them rather than tape. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets.''
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