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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Tape drive FAQ
To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 07:31:58 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199604081311.IAA19012@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Apr 8, 96 08:11:05 am
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Peter da Silva wrote:
> 
> Here's the sort of thing I'd like to be able to answer from the FAQ:
> 
> 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
> 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> What's the FAQts/conventional wisdom on this?
> 

regarding tape DRIVE prices:
	prices change dramatically over the course of a few weeks at times.
	who is going to adjust the prices regularly?  i dont have the 
	desire to do that, i dont belive that i will find the best
	prices fro everyone.  so prices dont belong in hte fact, in general

media prices seem more stable.  we can show an example calculation of
media cost versus drivce cost and let them hit the caluculator, or perl
script it with a cgi-bin form (perl is in the release).  how does one do that
in SGML????


Jonathan M. Bresler           FreeBSD Postmaster             jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/

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