From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 13 16: 1: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hostigos.otherwhen.com (dialin2017.pernet.net [205.229.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB1D14C06 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:00:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mavery@mail.otherwhen.com) Received: from mail.otherwhen.com (mail.2.229.205.in-addr.arpa [205.229.2.19] (may be forged)) by hostigos.otherwhen.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA25026 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:04:34 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199907132304.SAA25026@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Received: from PORKY/SpoolDir by mail.otherwhen.com (Mercury 1.45); 13 Jul 99 18:00:40 -0600 Received: from SpoolDir by PORKY (Mercury 1.45); 13 Jul 99 18:00:35 -0600 From: "Mike Avery" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:00:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Recomended tapes form HP? Reply-To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com In-reply-to: <378BBABA.9228F8F0@bulinfo.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14 Jul 99, at 1:16, Iani Brankov wrote: > I have to buy a tape drive for a FreeBSD box. > I'm using an old HP DAT drive and it works great. And is it a travan or a DAT? > What about the these models: > HP Colorado Travan drives (IDE) > HP SureStore Travan drives (SCSI) > I read in the handbook that QIC drives are more reliable than DAT ones. > According to HP these models are QIC compatible. Ahhh... which handbook? We just had a long discussion here and a number of people (not just me) said... loudly... that Travan and QIC are evil. I would suggest skipping both of 'em. Look at DAT drives instead. Seagate's Scorpion 12/24 gig drive is awesome. Also, look at http://www.corpsys.com/store/products.asp?dept=Tape%20Drives Corporate Systems Center has a number of attractive tape drives at reasonable prices. I've been happy with the company in the past. Mike ====================================================================== Mike Avery MAvery@mail.otherwhen.com (409)-842-2942 (work) ICQ: 16241692 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * A Randomly Selected Thought For The Day: Apathy Error: Don't Bother Striking Any Key. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message