From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Apr 8 06:28:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA25765 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 06:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Post-Office.UH.EDU (Post-Office.UH.EDU [129.7.1.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA25760 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 06:28:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU by Post-Office.UH.EDU (PMDF V5.0-6 #8380) id <01I3AJFAPG50000CWG@Post-Office.UH.EDU> for doc@freebsd.org; Mon, 08 Apr 1996 08:28:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA21423 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for doc@freebsd.org); Mon, 08 Apr 1996 08:15:12 -0500 Received: (from peter@localhost) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA19012; Mon, 08 Apr 1996 08:11:05 -0500 Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 08:11:05 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Tape drive FAQ To: doc@freebsd.org Message-id: <199604081311.IAA19012@bonkers.taronga.com> Organization: none Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <199604070952.LAA17288@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199604071621.JAA18505@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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?