From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Feb 3 10:01:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20683 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:01:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20668 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:01:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08512; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:01:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA09779; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:01:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA15774; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:01:00 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199902031801.KAA15774@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:01:00 -0800 In-Reply-To: J Wunsch "Re: SCSI Tape Drives..." (Feb 3, 7:20am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Feb 3, 7:20am, J Wunsch wrote: } Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... } OTOH, } i've got a pile of QIC-150 cartridges on a shelf stemming from } software vendors like you mentioned, so they are for free, and they } still serve well enough for small quantities of data. The TDC 4222 is } probably about 5 years old now, and so far i haven't needed more than } 10 of the higher-density (and more expensive) cartridges. What's the wisdom these days about using different tape types? The manufacturers used to recommend against this because the different tape types would create different head wear patterns. I thought that would be a good reason to mix the tape types, sort of like periodically rotating the tires on your car ;-) --- Truck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message