From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 13 10:50:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5821115059 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:50:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id SAA25850; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:43:57 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00923; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:25:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:25:45 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Warner Losh Cc: Soren Schmidt , Karl Denninger , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format? Message-ID: <19991213192545.D636@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <199912130738.IAA28004@freebsd.dk> <199912131731.KAA44607@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912131731.KAA44607@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:31:31AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:31:31AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > 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). It does, yes. I never had any desire to go for IDE tapes but I have now filed the idea as insane ;-) -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message