Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 00:10:06 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tape drive FAQ Message-ID: <199604081440.AAA09922@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199604081311.IAA19012@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Apr 8, 96 08:11:05 am
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
Peter da Silva stands accused of saying: > > Here's the sort of thing I'd like to be able to answer from the FAQ: Presuming you want a real answer to this too 8) > 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 high-capacity QIC media costs _lot$_. > 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? Um. If you're just shuffling, try for a secondhand QIC-150 and use DC6250's. That's about the lowest startup-capital option. > 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. Hmm. The bonus with DAT is that media are _very_ cheap. I'd expect you to pay around $10 for a 2G cart, as opposed to $30 or so for DC6250's. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[help
Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199604081440.AAA09922>