From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Apr 21 19:20:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBA5A15549 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:19:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-15-203.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.15.203]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA09997; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:17:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (nospam.hiwaay.net [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA19940; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:17:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199904220217.VAA19940@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Palle Girgensohn Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: seagate SCORPION taper? Was: python In-reply-to: Message from Palle Girgensohn of "Thu, 22 Apr 1999 01:41:29 +0200." <371E6229.A660B766@partitur.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 21:17:24 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message