From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jan 2 08:33:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA12120 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 08:33:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from persprog.com (persprog.com [204.215.255.203]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id IAA12113 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 08:33:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by persprog.com (8.7.5/4.10) id LAA22641; Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:20:05 -0500 Message-Id: <199701021620.LAA22641@persprog.com> Received: from dasa(192.2.2.199) by cerberus.ppi.com via smap (V1.3) id sma022636; Thu Jan 2 11:19:46 1997 Received: from DASA/SpoolDir by dasa.ppi.com (Mercury 1.21); 2 Jan 97 11:19:54 +0500 Received: from SpoolDir by DASA (Mercury 1.30); 2 Jan 97 11:19:51 +0500 From: "David Alderman" Organization: Personalized Programming, Inc To: "Louis A. Mamakos" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:19:42 +0500 Subject: Re: Are HP DAT drives more unreliable than others? Priority: normal In-reply-to: <199701020606.BAA16707@whizzo.transsys.com> References: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jan 1997 11:31:53 +1030." <199701020101.LAA14588@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.50) Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 2 Jan 97 at 1:06, Louis A. Mamakos proclaimed: > > Oh no; you're telling me that DLT's are derived from the TK50??! > > > > 8) > > Everytime I see one, it gives me the willies... I have many > not so fond memories of installing Ultrix 1.x from TK50 tapes. What > interesting noises they made... > > I still have an old TK50 in my garage. You should have seen the error messages I got when I foolishly tried to use it with FreeBSD! Is a TK50 good for anything these days (other than a doorstop, that is)? Seriously, the new DLT's are supposedly quite reliable and with capacities of 20 Gigabytes or more, DLT's are quite common on big file servers these days. I cannot vouch for them personally, however. ====================================== When philosophy conflicts with reality, choose reality. Dave Alderman -- dave@persprog.com ======================================