From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 10 22:13:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA06796 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:13:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from Tandem.com (suntan.tandem.com [192.216.221.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA06787 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:13:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from papillon.lemis.com ([168.87.69.104]) by Tandem.com (8.8.8/2.0.1) with ESMTP id WAA08827; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:13:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id OAA08484; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:11:11 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <19971211141108.64729@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:11:08 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kelly Cc: michael dorin , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cheap cheap 4mm tape drive wanted References: <199712110010.SAA29834@nospam.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199712110010.SAA29834@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 06:10:56PM -0600 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 06:10:56PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > michael dorin writes: >> >> Where can I find a really, really, really cheap 4mm tape drive >> that FreeBSD will be happy with? > > http://www.corpsys.com has had good prices on DDS drives in the past > but I haven't seen any in the past year. They've been offering an Archive 4586 autochange for some time now. The current price is #379. See more details on http://www.corpsys.com/cgi-bin/select?282585099339485&specials&4586NPR. I have one of these drives, and so far it's been the most reliable DDS drive I've ever had (daily 8 hour backups for a year now). By contrast, the HP drives are unreliable. You should definitely avoid the old DDS-1 drives, which never lasted more than 6 months for me. > 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. You can also pick this up on the Web somewhere. Sorry, I don't have the URL handy. > 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 Is this the DDS-1 version of the autoloader? Greg