I have to agree with Bill.
I don't like the "me-too" postings, but in this case, I can't recommend
highly enough dumping that Travan. I've never had one work for more than a
year or so before dying various deaths.
Get yourself a nice big 250GB USB/firewire drive and zip your backups tight.
You'll
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003, Christophe wrote:
>I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an ATA Travan
>tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing
>operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of
>timeout problem on rewind:
A good general rule abou
I've installed FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE on a Dell 400SC with an ATA Travan
tape drive, accessing it through /dev/ast0. On linear writing
operations, it works great... but there appears to be some kind of
timeout problem on rewind:
# mt -f /dev/nast0 rewind
mt: /dev/nast0: rewind: Input/output error
