From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 17:49: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A304237B419 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:48:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AB7097855F; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:18:57 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:18:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: Noor Dawod , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011120121857.O76318@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120120938.M76318@monorchid.lemis.com> <007f01c17164$a3284c40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007f01c17164$a3284c40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 On Tuesday, 20 November 2001 at 2:42:32 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Greg writes: > >> I've been using DDS (so-called DAT) drives for years too, and I've >> had nothing but trouble with them. > > What sort of trouble, Total failure. > and what brand of drives are you using? HP, AIWA, Sony, Conner. > And the obvious question: if they are so much trouble, why have you > been using them for years? What would you replace them with? It's a question of cost. There are very few reliable tape drives. But if disks were anywhere near as unreliable as tapes, people would be up in arms. >> I still estimate the average life to be about 18 months. > > The average life of what? Media or the drive? Drive. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message