From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 10 16:49:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA11219 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:49:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA11195 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:49:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-109.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.109]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA02399; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:49:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA29834; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:10:56 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199712110010.SAA29834@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: michael dorin cc: questions@freebsd.org From: David Kelly Subject: Re: cheap cheap 4mm tape drive wanted In-reply-to: Message from michael dorin of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:26:29 GMT." <199712100826.IAA03346@chaski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:10:56 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk michael dorin writes: > > Where can I find a really, really, really cheap 4mm tape drive > that FreeBSD will be happy with? http://www.onsale.com sometimes has good deals on good 4mm drives. Got to be very careful with these guys as they will picture an external drive when selling internal, or they'll use the picture of a 4mm for a QIC-3080... etc. Read the text carefully. Research pays. I bought (3) Seagate/Conner/Archive 4326RP's from them for $289 each recently. 8G DDS-2. Very nice drive, SGI is shipping the Seagate CDT8000 (current generation of the 4326, my 4326 actually has the 8000 P/N on it too) with their high end stuff and has been using Seagate/Conner/Archive drives for a long time. http://www.basoncomputer.com also usually has good prices on DDS drives. http://www.corpsys.com has had good prices on DDS drives in the past but I haven't seen any in the past year. Their web site could stand enhancing as they don't provide enough info about a component to inspire me to order one. They do mail 4-color catalogs fairly often. After chewing up two WangDAT 3100's I've always been happy with the Archive drives. And I was very happy when Seagate shipped the SCSI programmer's guide for free when I asked for it. This is my 4326: (ahc0:5:0): "ARCHIVE Python 28388-XXX 4.CM" type 1 removable SCSI 2 st0(ahc0:5:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13, drive empty And this is my QIC-9130, mostly used for QIC-150 compatability: (ahc0:6:0): "ARCHIVE ANCDA 2750 28077 -003" type 1 removable SCSI 2 st1(ahc0:6:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x0, drive empty -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.