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> While we're on the subject - is there any good backup devices in the 60Gb
> range for FreeBSD that have a similar cost as the OnStream drive (what was
> it again, 300$? something like that?)?
> IIRC, my big beef with the OnStream drive (besides the weird format the
> driver used and slowness b
Jeremy D. Pavleck wrote:
While we're on the subject - is there any good backup devices in the 60Gb
range for FreeBSD that have a similar cost as the OnStream drive (what was
it again, 300$? something like that?)?
Something like a DLT 7000 or 8000, if you have SCSI available? DLT does up to
35/70
While we're on the subject - is there any good backup devices in the 60Gb
range for FreeBSD that have a similar cost as the OnStream drive (what was
it again, 300$? something like that?)?
IIRC, my big beef with the OnStream drive (besides the weird format the
driver used and slowness backing up/res
Short answer: No
Long answer: No, because OnStream isn't using a standard ATAPI driver for
their IDE drives.
The make use of accessing the drive using very special commands in their
proprietary backup
software. Without the software the drive won't work. I have already
contacted On Stream abo
Bag it.
Onstream drives where a good idea, but the company as a whole blows. I
have never found a *nix driver for the one I had. Not to mention, it took
almost a year for a Windows 2000 driver to appear, and then it was buggy
and slow.
I dumped mine as soon as I could, it was next to useless for me
