> > I am running Freebsd 4.6 and my dds-2 tape backup drive just died on me. > I am interested in moving up to a bigger capacity drive so does anyone > have any recommendations? I am not interested in anything high end, this > is just for my system at home. I was looking at the dds-3 drives, but > before i went out and bought one, I would like opinions and or > recommendations. Thanks in advance.
We have DDS-3 drives on a number of systems and mostly they work well. We have a couple of systems that cannot be written/read with dd or cp which causes us a problem and we haven't discovered a reason yet. Those are all on Dell systems, but I don't remember the drive model[s]/maker[s] at the moment. Interestingly enough, tar will still write/read them. Besides that problem, keep in mind that DAT, though a nice format for light duty work, doesn't seem to be designed to handle really heavy demand work - nearly 24/7 backup work of multiple systems or whatever. ////jerry > > -- > Peter Erickson > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
