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? Message-ID: <19970908074725.OZ12393@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709080000.RAA18961@hub.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Sep 7, 1997 17:00:16 -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970907182229.12725Q-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> <199709080000.RAA18961@hub.freebsd.org>
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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. ;-)
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