From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 6 10:10:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23185 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:10:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kithrup.com (kithrup.com [205.179.156.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23171 for ; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sef@kithrup.com) Received: (from sef@localhost) by kithrup.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA22724; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:10:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sef) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:10:06 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Eric Fagan Message-Id: <199802061810.KAA22724@kithrup.com> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Opinions on which Tape Drive to Buy? In-Reply-To: <199802061759.JAA09021.kithrup.freebsd.hardware@MindBender.serv.net> References: Your message of Fri, 06 Feb 98 07:06:34 -0800. Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hardware" In article <199802061759.JAA09021.kithrup.freebsd.hardware@MindBender.serv.net> you write: >Be careful of generalizing too much. Archive is owned by Seagate. >Avoid the Seagate (and other) cheap cartridge drives. The Seagate/ >Archive DAT drives are fine. I have one of these, a DDS-2 drive with autoloader and four tape cartridge: (ncr0:5:0): "ARCHIVE Python 28849-XXX 4.CM" type 1 removable SCSI 2 st0(ncr0:5:0): Sequential-Access st0(ncr0:5:0): 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 15) density code 0x13, drive empty (ncr0:5:1): "ARCHIVE Python 28849-XXX 4.CM" type 8 removable SCSI 2 ch0(ncr0:5:1): Medium-Changer 0 slot, 1 drive, 1 picker (ncr0:8:0): "IBM DCAS-32160W S65A" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 I bought the drive for about $370 at a local (Sunnyvale, actually) store, the Disk Drive Depot (aka CSC). It's the second DAT drive I bought from them (the first, the same model only with DDS-1 + Compression, died a couple of years after I boguht it). Incidently, does anyone know how to use the chio command to control this sucker? I've never been able to get it to move tapes around, and get various kernel messages when I try.