On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:31:31AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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).
It does, yes. I never had any desire to go for IDE tapes but I have now
filed the idea as insane ;-)
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