From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 26 3:55:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 368DE37B41F for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 03:55:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (win.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fAQBtEC03499; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:55:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <008901c17671$360f02e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: References: <001801c1764b$a22764c0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 12:55:14 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted writes: > Heli-scan technology was a good thing when it came > out, but today there's DLT which is much better in > terms of reliability in a production environment. I'd use DLT if it didn't cost four times as much as DAT for both drives and media. With the light use I give my drive, and the fact that the drive reading the tape is always the same drive that wrote it, I hope not to have any problems any time soon. > When that figure starts to rise then get the tape > drive realigned before you start tossing tapes. Is realignment any cheaper than just buying a new drive? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message