Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 11:33:33 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is this (SCSI) tape drive compatible with FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970907112552.12725L-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <19970906102021.YZ35994@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > This is an old religious war, and i won't continue it myself except > for this mail. > The general opinion of quite a number of people is that longit- > udinally-recording drives (QIC, DLT, MLT (sp?)) are much more robust, > becuase of them being KISS. QIC ain't dead either, i'm not the only > one using it, and there are drives available up to 10 or 20 GB as well > (which still can read and write the old QIC-150 cartridges). Okay, in this war I'm an ignorant bystander ready to be converted one way or another. I do have an archive viper, but as I think I mentioned, it isn't working too well anymore and backing up 3gb of disk is damn tedious with it. I'm now thinking about what it will be replaced with. What is the scoop on TR-4 drives such as the HP T4000 and Seagate T8000? What is it about DAT or 8MM drives of similar capacity and read/write speed (on the spec sheet at least) that makes them cost about 50% more? -john
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