From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 20 00:42:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA24663 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:42:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA24650 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 00:42:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Sat, 20 Jan 96 08:42 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA08840; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 09:26:34 +0100 Message-Id: <199601200826.JAA08840@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 09:26:34 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <199601142359.AAA08768@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 15, 96 00:59:26 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > > As chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu wrote: >> >> Back to one of the orginal questions...How about adding support >> for using 8mm video tapes? SunOS, BSD/OS, & Linux all support this. >> They're cheap and I've had wonderful success using them. I just wouldn't >> do a level 0 dump on one ;-) > > Despite of massive reliability problems related to those drives (the > MTBF seems to be less than 100 hours), an EXB-8201 does work for me. > Under plain FreeBSD 2.0.5. Hmm. How do you define MTBF? I haven't had any trouble at all on my 8500 (I have, however, on SunOS and BSD/OS, but that looks like it's a driver problem, not a device problem). I've repeatedly heard that using real video tapes is a Bad Idea. Now that data quality tapes are available at substantially the same price, there is also no reason to do so. Greg