Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:27:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Quantum DLT 4000 Message-ID: <20000426102742.D38026@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10004251703270.12550-100000@mail.telestream.com> References: <20000426092814.N26934@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10004251703270.12550-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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On Tuesday, 25 April 2000 at 17:06:23 -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 25 April 2000 at 9:40:39 -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: >>> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>>> On Monday, 24 April 2000 at 10:56:35 -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: >>>>> Does anyone know if this tape system will work in FreeBSD, >>>>> >>>>> Quantum DLT 4000 Tape Drive Model# TH5AA-EY >>>> >>>> Yes, I have one: >>>> >>>> sa1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 >>>> sa1: <Quantum DLT4000 CC1E> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device >>>> sa1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15) >>>> >>>> It works fine. >>>> >>>>> I found one at an increadible price and would like to get it asap. >>>> >>>> How does it compare to the $899 I paid for mine? >>> >>> Ya it compares to that price, $600.00 never been used. >>> <Or so that's the story they gave> :) >> >> That looks very good. Mine was refurbished. > > I'm a bit concerned about how long the drive will live. Just coming > off of a tape drive death it's paramount on my mind. Right, I've had a lot of trouble with tape drives. DLT drives are supposed to be "very" reliable (i.e. not as terrible as some others). > Does yours suffer a decent beating with good results, even being a > referb. ? I don't use it that often. I've bought a set of surplus AIWA DDS-2 drives ($79 each), and I'm going to use them sequentially until they fail. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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