Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 10:25:10 -0500 From: Andrew Heybey <ath@bellcore.com> To: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI backup tape drive recommendations (again) Message-ID: <199801221525.KAA06385@grapenuts.bellcore.com> In-Reply-To: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov's message of Wed, 21 Jan 1998 14:41:51 -0800 (PST) References: <199801212241.OAA01034@george.arc.nasa.gov>
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I bought an unused (though obsolete) DDS-1 (2GB per 90M tape, no compression, 400KB/s) archive ne conner ne seagate drive from www.onsale.com a while ago for about $230 (including shipping). Out of the box, it didn't work: it would wedge the NCR driver, the AHC driver would report write errors, and Windoze NT would report read errors when verifying backups. Thankfully, Seagate support emailed me a firmware update and after that it works like a champ. I am very happy with it. If I want compression I pipe my dump or tar through gzip. So I would second the recommendation to buy a DDS drive of some kind. It doesn't take buying too many $25 tapes to make that $150 QIC tape drive look awfully expensive. 90M DDS tapes are $7 at the local Computer City and $5 mail-order. andrew
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