From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 2 11:34:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14871 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:34:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA14848 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 0zPA1y-0003pV-00; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:34:18 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA18311; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:34:10 -0700 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 11:34:10 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 To: Richard Foulk cc: Duncan Barclay , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810012303.NAA09752@pegasus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > } Any suggestions as to which brands of tape are good/bad etc. I only need > to } back up a few hundred meg. on it at home (everything else is on CDs > or CVSup!) } > > I've had very good results with Sony 8mm video tapes. Costco sells them > here for about $3 each. This is likely to prove to be a false economy. 'Data' tapes and 'video' tapes use different materials. The 'video' tapes are reported to drasticly increase head wear. A worn out head is going to cost you a lot more than data tapes would have... (Video tape drives don't have the data density and integrety requirements of data drives; so they can be made of less delicate materials and to take wear that causes a small quantity of data loss.) Here in Silicon Valley, 112m data quality tapes are available for around $8 each. > A cleaning tape is good to have too. Nearly essential. Every now and then the drive will tell you that it needs to be cleaned. You should be prepared to do it. Cleaning cartridges are fairly cheap; and should last quite a while, especially if the drive isn't heavily used. (I do a single tape backup on my 8505 every night. It asks for cleaning every three or four months; so a single cleaning tape lasts for years.) -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message