From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 19:05:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA22586 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:05:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA22580 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 19:05:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA27642; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:05:01 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199701210305.UAA27642@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: amanda+FreeBSD+DLT, anyone? To: hal@vailsys.com Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:05:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions) In-Reply-To: <32E3F8EC.7DF4@vailsys.com> from "Hal Snyder" at Jan 20, 97 04:59:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Our Wangtek DAT drive finally quit, needs replacement. > > Is anyone using amanda with FreeBSD to run a DLT drive? If so, is it > working well? Yes. Yes. > I chatted with vendors at Usenix. It looks as if entry level prices are > comparable for DLT and 8mm tape. If I am correct, DLT should be more > reliable as the tape is not in contact with R/W heads as it is with > helical scan such as 8mm. Someone please correct me if I am wrong! Well, the tape doesn't wrap around a rotating head, etc. like with 8mm. Quantum has several white papers on the subject that you might want to review. >From what I've been able to gather, one of the most common DLT problems is a failure of the little "leader" tape that extracts the tape from the cartridge. Also, environment can be a bummer (living in dusty AZ this is a concern for me). Performance *ROCKS*! --don