From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 5 13:45:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FCF937BB0A for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 13:45:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05885; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 13:45:17 -0800 Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 13:45:17 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Onstream? In-Reply-To: <89tjbu$2ji2$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You see- this why I dropped the notion of supporting the earlier unit- if there's one with a real SCSI i/f, why bother? I mean, yes, it'll cost more, but my take on that is "Don't get cheap on your backups". On 5 Mar 2000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Alan Batie wrote: > > > I just got an onstream scsi tape drive only to discover that I should've > > checked the archives because it don't work. > > Depends on the drive. If you got an Echo drive (SCxx), you're right. > The ADR drives--yes, they all use ADR tape technology, but confusingly > there's also a model line called "ADR"--on the other hand, are > ordinary SCSI drives, according to the OnStream representative I > talked to at CeBIT. For instance, they're certified to work with > the plain Linux SCSI tape driver. > > A few days ago I asked whether anybody's running an ADR50 successfully > off a FreeBSD box but received no response. Actually I'm not sure > the ADR50 is in the stores yet. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message