From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Feb 7 09:33:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA05267 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 09:33:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05252 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 09:32:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (max2-143.HiWAAY.net [208.147.145.143]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id LAA06458; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 11:32:55 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA20251; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 10:31:03 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199802071631.KAA20251@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Jamie Clark Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Q: Opinions on which Tape Drive to Buy? In-reply-to: Message from Donald Burr of "Fri, 06 Feb 1998 07:06:34 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 07 Feb 1998 10:31:03 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hardware" Donald Bur writes: > > Avoid the HP/Colorado and Seagate SCSI tape, however, I have heard bad > things about these (coming from, I believe, the FreeBSD lists). Other > than that, most any tape drive will do. Many like Exabyte drives; the > Archive family is popular as well. Archive is Seagate now, was Conner. IMHO Seagate makes excellent DAT/DDS tape drives. OTOH Sony SDT-5200 is underwhelming. Exabyte 8mm 8505XL drives seem to work very well with FreeBSD and Sparc Solaris but for Irix one needs exactly the right patches (for Irix) and the right firmware (for the Exabyte) else its a disaster. Once I scrounged a P90, put FreeBSD on it, and declared it an Exabyte Tape Server for a group of Irix machines. Was much easier than making the Exabyte work on Irix. Of course I only got that wise after totally trashing the Irix boot disk 4 times. http://www.basoncomputer.com was advertising an Archive 4326 for $399. Not sure if that price was updated on their web page or not. But I have 4 of these on various systems and have been very happy. 2/4G DDS-1/ compressed, 4G/8G DDS-2/compressed. (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 -- 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.