From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Jan 2 15:39:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15077 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 15:39:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15065 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 1999 15:39:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA25104; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:07:59 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA67835; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:08:03 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990103100802.H66110@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:08:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Wilko Bulte , spork Cc: louie@TransSys.COM, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu Subject: Re: DDS alternative References: <199901020944.KAA10768@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199901020944.KAA10768@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 10:44:57AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 2 January 1999 at 10:44:57 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > As spork wrote... >> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> Frequently. I read tapes written 5 years ago. That's the part that >>> works :-) >>> >>>> I've heared to much horror stories about unreadable DAT tapes to >>>> trust them... >>> >>> The trouble I have (and continue to have) is that the things have >>> such a short life. I used to do a complete backup (4 hours tape >>> motion) every night. Under those circumstances, the old DDS-1 drives >>> lasted about 6 months, and the DDS-2 last about 18 months. >> >> We just switched to AIT drives. So far so good, has anyone run into >> problems with those? The lifespan is supposed to be very comparable to >> DLT, and the seek time is excellent... > > I've played with one once and it appears to work well. And it was very fast > too. I can't comment on durability, but from looking at them I'd guess they > are a whole lot better than DAT drives. Also the cartridges are more robust, > as is the tape media. Who makes these drives? I haven't heard of them, so I suspect they have some other name as well. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message