Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:46:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com> Cc: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DDS-2/DDS-3 drives Message-ID: <19990410134632.J2142@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904100007430.27348-100000@fnur.3skel.com>; from Dan Janowski on Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 12:09:01AM -0400 References: <19990410131624.H2142@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904100007430.27348-100000@fnur.3skel.com>
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On Saturday, 10 April 1999 at 0:09:01 -0400, Dan Janowski wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 9 April 1999 at 23:40:23 -0400, Dan Janowski wrote: >>> On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Joerg Micheel wrote: >>> >>> FreeBSD deals very well with DAT, and when there are problems it tells >>> you. As with any tape drive, my recommendation is to buy it from a >>> company that will be there when it breaks. >> >> I don't know if that helps much. I've had *very* bad experience with >> repairs to helical scan tapes. I tend to buy from the cheapest place, >> because when they fail they're not worth repairing. > > Hi Greg, > > Other comments accepted. Here I imply not repair, but replacement. Then replace it where it's cheapest :-) I'm seriously wondering whether I can be bothered with helical scan tapes, though. I've been using them for years, and they're the most unreliable part of the system by a long shot. 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-hardware" in the body of the message
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