From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 19 23:40:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from longfellow.nbrewer.com (nbrewer.dsl.visi.com [208.42.141.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F9737B405; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 23:40:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by longfellow.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B973D1880; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 01:40:11 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 01:40:11 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Greg Lehey Cc: Anthony Atkielski , Noor Dawod , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011120014009.A794@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Greg Lehey , Anthony Atkielski , Noor Dawod , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120120938.M76318@monorchid.lemis.com> <007f01c17164$a3284c40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120121857.O76318@monorchid.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011120121857.O76318@monorchid.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 12:18:57PM +1030 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey (grog@FreeBSD.org) wrote: > What would you replace them with? It's a question of cost. There are > very few reliable tape drives. But if disks were anywhere near as > unreliable as tapes, people would be up in arms. Given the supposed unreliability of tape drives, this may not be wise, but I bought a couple of cheap DLT drives on eBay. You can get an external DLT4000 for about $250. No warrantee, caveat emptor, whatever. It's $250 for a 40 Gig tape drive (about $500 for a 70 gig). If it breaks you can throw it away and buy another one. Compared to the DDS-2 drives I've owned, these DLT drives seem to be build like Volvos: they're big, heavy bricks. And, you know, maybe you don't want your tape drives miniaturized, feeding tape through hairpin turns. I'm betting that bigger is better. -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message