Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:08:02 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: louie@TransSys.COM, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu Subject: Re: DDS alternative Message-ID: <19990103100802.H66110@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199901020944.KAA10768@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 10:44:57AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9901020017170.17111-100000@super-g.inch.com> <199901020944.KAA10768@yedi.iaf.nl>
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On Saturday, 2 January 1999 at 10:44:57 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > As spork wrote... >> On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: >> >>> Frequently. I read tapes written 5 years ago. That's the part that >>> works :-) >>> >>>> I've heared to much horror stories about unreadable DAT tapes to >>>> trust them... >>> >>> The trouble I have (and continue to have) is that the things have >>> such a short life. I used to do a complete backup (4 hours tape >>> motion) every night. Under those circumstances, the old DDS-1 drives >>> lasted about 6 months, and the DDS-2 last about 18 months. >> >> We just switched to AIT drives. So far so good, has anyone run into >> problems with those? The lifespan is supposed to be very comparable to >> DLT, and the seek time is excellent... > > I've played with one once and it appears to work well. And it was very fast > too. I can't comment on durability, but from looking at them I'd guess they > are a whole lot better than DAT drives. Also the cartridges are more robust, > as is the tape media. Who makes these drives? I haven't heard of them, so I suspect they have some other name as well. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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