Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 15:16:14 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Conrado Vardanega" <cvarda@ig.com.br>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Promise ATA RAID and IDE Tapes Message-ID: <200011072216.PAA23519@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 2000 13:51:02 PST." <200011072151.eA7Lp2F33126@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200011072151.eA7Lp2F33126@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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In message <200011072151.eA7Lp2F33126@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mike Smith writes: : Yes. However these drives are actually a pretty bad deal; when a 5GB : tape is ~$40 the drive suddenly looks a lot less economical. Try : finding a secondhand DAT or Exabyte 8mm drive. And most of the IDE tape drives are horrible. They are much slower than the SCSI drives. At least that's been my experience with the two IDE tape drives that I have. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the messagehome | help
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