From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Feb 7 14:40:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16725 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 14:40:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from why.whine.com (whine-gw.whine.com [205.150.249.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16719 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 14:40:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@whine.com) Received: from why (why [205.150.249.1]) by why.whine.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA01374; Sat, 7 Feb 1998 17:40:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 17:40:18 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Herdman X-Sender: andrew@why To: David Kelly cc: Jamie Clark , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Opinions on which Tape Drive to Buy? In-Reply-To: <199802071631.KAA20251@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hardware" On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, David Kelly wrote: >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 I have one of these units as well and am happy with it. One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to get it to use compression. No matter what I do, it always does only 2gig per 90m tape. Any ideas? (and yes, passthrough is off). Thanks Andrew