Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 08:11:05 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape drive FAQ Message-ID: <199604081311.IAA19012@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <199604070952.LAA17288@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199604071621.JAA18505@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Here's the sort of thing I'd like to be able to answer from the FAQ: OK, I've got all these DC600 cartridges around the place. I'm using an Archive QIC-02 drive through an MT-02 SCSI-QIC adaptor. I'm looking for a better tape drive and there are some decent-capacity SCSI-QIC drives I can probably convince my wife to go for, that are big enough I can use Amanda profitably (600MB partitions don't go into 60M tapes even if I get Amanda to use gzip-9). But am I going to lose it on the cartridge cost? She's ruled out DAT unless I can get a DAT drive for well under the $550 that's the best price I can manage. I'll be damned if I'm going to buy one of those ghastly Floppy Tape things without Jesus Monroy's mythical driver. What's the FAQts/conventional wisdom on this?home | help
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