From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 13 9:31:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D24B154B0 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:31:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA68241; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:31:32 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA44607; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:31:31 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199912131731.KAA44607@harmony.village.org> To: Soren Schmidt Subject: Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format? Cc: karl@Denninger.Net (Karl Denninger), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:38:44 +0100." <199912130738.IAA28004@freebsd.dk> References: <199912130738.IAA28004@freebsd.dk> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:31:31 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199912130738.IAA28004@freebsd.dk> Soren Schmidt writes: : > Anything else I should know offhand other than "plug it in and use dump like : > everything else"? : : Not really... Actually yes. There is one thing you should know. The ata tape drives tend to be more flakey than their scsi brotheren. This isn't to say a specific drive won't be reliable, but in general I've found that they are fussier and require more care and feeding than my old Exebyte drives (Which should tell the old users of the 8200 and 8500 something here). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message