Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:31:21 +0000 From: "Duncan Barclay" <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 Message-ID: <199810050831.BAA11803@mailgate.cadence.com> In-Reply-To: <199810050817.SAA21031@nymph.dtir.qld.gov.au> References: <199810021421.HAA01170@mailgate.cadence.com> from "Duncan Barclay" at "Fri, 02 Oct 1998 15:21:23 %2B0000"
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> On Friday, 2nd October 1998, "Duncan Barclay" wrote: > > >> As I recal, the only real problem with a Cybernetic tape drive is > >> the compression is vendor unique. > > > >Doesn't matter as it's for home use. And I only need to back up a > >gigabyte or so. > > I would dispute this. Your cheap custom tape drive is likely to > expire before your disk, and then you are left with a pile of > unreadable backups. Write uncompressed tapes, and use software > compression if you want to save time/space. Then you at least have > the option of recovering your files at work if, say, a burglar takes > a liking to your backup device. Sorry, I think I meant to say: Doesn't matter as it's for home use. And I only need to back up a gigabyte or so, and I probably won't bother with compression. Compression on backup tapes always seems like a bad idea to me in case something goes wrong, i.e. corruption of the dictionary etc. > Stephen. > > PS Every time I post about Exabytes I ask if anyone knows how to > query one about its error rate (or other head cleaning related > notifications). No, I can't find this on the Exabyte site, and yes, > I've looked. I would be happy to be proven an idiot by being given > an URL showing actual information. I didn't see anything related to this either. I think I may have seen it on a DejaNews searches I did, and I may have saved it a home. I will dig it up tonight if I can. Duncan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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