From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 10 10:02:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA16701 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www2.shoppersnet.com (shoppersnet.com [204.156.152.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA16695 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:02:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hlew@localhost) by www2.shoppersnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA23751; Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:11:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:11:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: Tom Jackson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jim@jaquNET.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.2-STABLE and Conner TR4 HyperQIC In-Reply-To: <19970610010325.54872@peeper.my.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Tom Jackson wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 1997 at 06:00:08PM -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > Awhile ago I had posted that I would test out a new Conner HyperQIC/ > > Travan4 tape SCSI tape drive under FreeBSD-2.2-STABLE. I installed > > it on Monday and have spent the last few days putting it through > > it's paces. It was tested on a Adaptec 2940 and 1522B. > > > > The Good News: It works solidly and reliably with no changes > > required to the kernel. > > The Bad News: It ain't that fast. > > Yes, the speed is what I don't like about those Travan devices... and don't ever make the mistake of getting the 4 Gig (2.2 uncompressed) Media because it holds so much and then deciding to format it because you will be surprised how long it takes to complete that task.