From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 16:38:23 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA02228 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 16:38:23 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA02216 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 16:38:15 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA08193; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 00:33:07 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511090033.AAA08193@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Non SCSI Tape drive To: lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se (Samy Touati) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 00:33:07 +0000 () Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Samy Touati" at Nov 8, 95 11:52:27 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 835 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Samy Touati stands accused of saying: > > I'm in the process of buying a tape drive for the FBSD 2.1. > What kind of tapes rive I can buy? > I'm looking at buying a Conner or a Colorado or something like that. Don't. Non-SCSI tape drives will just give you trouble. Buy a really cheap SCSI controller like an Adaptec 1540, and a decent SCSI tape unit. The extra money is more than worth it in terms of saved hassles, speed and reliability. > Samy -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[