From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 14 0: 3:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darwin.ntu.edu.au (darwin.ntu.edu.au [138.80.128.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF36214EBA for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:03:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from mojave.lemis.com ([138.80.54.116]) by darwin.ntu.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21157 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:31:55 +0930 (CST) Received: (grog@localhost) by mojave.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) id QAA02182; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:05:14 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990714160513.28515@mojave.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:05:13 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recomended tapes form HP? References: <378BBABA.9228F8F0@bulinfo.net> <199907132304.SAA25026@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199907132304.SAA25026@hostigos.otherwhen.com>; from Mike Avery on Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 06:00:32PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 13 July 1999 at 18:00:32 -0500, Mike Avery wrote: > 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? Normally I'd expect him to mean the online handbook. What makes you think differently? > We just had a long discussion here and a number of people (not just > me) said... loudly... that Travan and QIC are evil. Funny, that's not what I recall. Who said QIC was evil? The only problem with QIC is the relatively low storage capacity of the affordable ones. And the opinions were split about Travan. > I would suggest skipping both of 'em. > > Look at DAT drives instead. Now they *did* agree that DDS (which you call DAT) is evil. They are some of the most unreliable drives on the market. I have yet to have one last two years, and I currently have replaced a drive with another of identical make, and I can't read my old backups. I wish I could recommend a good tape drive, but the only ones which look like being good are DLT, and they cost an arm and a leg. greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key 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