From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 4 03:06:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA04782 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 03:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pegasus.com (pegasus.com [140.174.243.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA04777 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 03:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by pegasus.com (8.6.8/PEGASUS-2.2) id AAA28215; Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:05:51 -1001 Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 00:05:51 -1001 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Message-Id: <199609041006.AAA28215@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: Michael Smith "Re: DAT for sure!" (Sep 4, 2:50pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DAT for sure! Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk } You can get by with the 8mm video tapes if you clean your heads more } often, but that loses because cleaning is abrasive. The problem with } video tapes is apparently a combination of the debris size (large) and } the crap binder that is used on these tapes. It's probably best to stick to name-brand tapes. I use Sonys since they're still very inexpensive. Sony tapes are fairly comparable to the `data quality' tapes and were actually what Exabyte originally spec'd for their drives. The great thing is that the tapes are so cheap that you can use them like floppies. Stashing just a few megs on a tape for convenience isn't wasteful at these prices. If you didn't need to buy tapes the Exabyte wouldn't be nearly as great a bargain. Richard