Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:11:08 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cheap cheap 4mm tape drive wanted Message-ID: <19971211141108.64729@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199712110010.SAA29834@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 06:10:56PM -0600 References: <mike@chaski.com> <199712110010.SAA29834@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 06:10:56PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > michael dorin writes: >> >> Where can I find a really, really, really cheap 4mm tape drive >> that FreeBSD will be happy with? > > http://www.corpsys.com has had good prices on DDS drives in the past > but I haven't seen any in the past year. They've been offering an Archive 4586 autochange for some time now. The current price is #379. See more details on http://www.corpsys.com/cgi-bin/select?282585099339485&specials&4586NPR. I have one of these drives, and so far it's been the most reliable DDS drive I've ever had (daily 8 hour backups for a year now). By contrast, the HP drives are unreliable. You should definitely avoid the old DDS-1 drives, which never lasted more than 6 months for me. > After chewing up two WangDAT 3100's I've always been happy with the > Archive drives. And I was very happy when Seagate shipped the SCSI > programmer's guide for free when I asked for it. You can also pick this up on the Web somewhere. Sorry, I don't have the URL handy. > This is my 4326: > (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 Is this the DDS-1 version of the autoloader? Greg
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