From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Sep 7 22:52:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA09232 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 22:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA09162 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 1997 22:52:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA00427 for freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 07:51:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA16028; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 07:47:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970908074725.OZ12393@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 07:47:25 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD? References: <199709080000.RAA18961@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709080000.RAA18961@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Sep 7, 1997 17:00:16 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > What sort of tapes does this use? > > full-size QIC tapes, the rugged ones with the aluminum plate. > label reads: > Maxell > DC-9135 1.35 gigabytes Btw., only out of curiosity, what about backward compatibility? The Tandbergs are backward-compatible down to QIC-120/QIC-150 for writing, and QIC-24 (60 MB) for reading. The DC-9135 is IMHO the ``extended length'' version of a DC-9100, i.e. it's basically a QIC 1 GB drive, like the Tandberg TDC 41xx series. 477 KB/s looks rather fast for such a drive, my drive gets between 200 and 250 KB/s on 1 GB cartridges. (It can push something in the 400 ... 500 KB/s range, but only onto 2/2.5 GB cartridges, and employing hardware compression.) Btw., you might add this drive to the hw.sgml file in the FreeBSD handbook then, it seems to be a good recommendation. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)