Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:31:31 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: karl@Denninger.Net (Karl Denninger), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format? Message-ID: <199912131731.KAA44607@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:38:44 %2B0100." <199912130738.IAA28004@freebsd.dk> References: <199912130738.IAA28004@freebsd.dk>
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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). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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