From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 1:57:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D1337B417; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 01:57:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fAK9vVH85718; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:57:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <00a801c171a9$c5a8f2c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Greg Lehey" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <002f01c17162$7d190550$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120120938.M76318@monorchid.lemis.com> <007f01c17164$a3284c40$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011120121857.O76318@monorchid.lemis.com> Subject: Re: SCSI tape back that works under FreeBSD Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:57:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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 writes: > Total failure. There's no such thing as "total failure." What actually occurred? > HP, AIWA, Sony, Conner. And all of them failed "totally"? > What would you replace them with? DLT is the usual choice. > It's a question of cost. If you don't want to pay for something better, you're in no position to complain about what you are using. > But if disks were anywhere near as unreliable > as tapes, people would be up in arms. Tapes don't have to be as reliable as disks. Nobody uses them for anything except backups. > Drive. How many times a day did you use the drive during 18 months? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message