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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:17:24 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: seagate SCORPION taper? Was: python 
Message-ID:  <199904220217.VAA19940@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>  of "Thu, 22 Apr 1999 01:41:29 %2B0200." <371E6229.A660B766@partitur.se> 

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Palle Girgensohn writes:
> Hi!
> 
> As David Kelly proposes, I have mixed up the names of these machines. I
> am planning to get a Seagate *Scorpion* DDS-3, not a python. Sorry for
> confusion!
> 
> But the Scorpions, they seem to be doing fine with FreeBSD? Glad to
> hear.

Yup. Am going to try mounting 8 on the next FreeBSD machine I build. 
Just can't write lots of tapes fast enough.  :-)

Actually the thought is to get a couple of 7 or 9 bay SCSI boxes, put
one CD-R, one 18G narrow HD, and 4 tapes in each. Then each box on its
own SCSI card and bus. Don't know yet if we'll fill one box with 4mm,
the other with 8mm, or split them up. Can always change our mind later.
The sad thing is I've pretty much resigned myself to a narrow 18G HD as
I can't get wide tape or CD-R and can't see buying 5 wide to narrow
adapters (well, maybe at only $12 each). Or a wide to narrow terminator
and breaking the SCSI cable. I don't think I have a bandwidth problem,
so I fall back to a narrow HD.

Then again, have been talking and talking and talking about this with 
the bosses for months. And nothing has been happening.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.




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