From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 14 16:22:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA03333 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 16:22:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA03323 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 16:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA22659 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 01:22:09 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA08723 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 01:22:08 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id AAA08768 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:59:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601142359.AAA08768@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:59:26 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601140032.TAA09952@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> from "chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu" at Jan 13, 96 07:32:55 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu wrote: > > Back to one of the orginal questions...How about adding support > for using 8mm video tapes? SunOS, BSD/OS, & Linux all support this. > They're cheap and I've had wonderful success using them. I just wouldn't > do a level 0 dump on one ;-) Despite of massive reliability problems related to those drives (the MTBF seems to be less than 100 hours), an EXB-8201 does work for me. Under plain FreeBSD 2.0.5. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)