From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 7 14:16:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69ECB37B4CF; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:16:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA7MGEg10313; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:16:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA23519; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:16:14 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011072216.PAA23519@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Promise ATA RAID and IDE Tapes Cc: "Conrado Vardanega" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.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> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 15:16:14 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 message