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ke...@mail.telestream.com

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Apr 24, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/24/00
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Does anyone know if this tape system will work in FreeBSD,

Quantum DLT 4000 Tape Drive Model# TH5AA-EY

I found one at an increadible price and would like to get it asap.

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Greg Lehey

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Apr 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/25/00
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On Monday, 24 April 2000 at 10:56:35 -0700, ke...@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?

Greg
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Greg Lehey

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On Monday, 24 April 2000 at 23:14:02 -0400, Lanny Baron wrote:
> Greg,

>
> On 25-Apr-00 Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Monday, 24 April 2000 at 10:56:35 -0700, ke...@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?
>
> That tape drive you price below, would it be the same as this model:
> Quantum DLT 4000 20/40 LVD Internal

Yes.

Greg
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ke...@mail.telestream.com

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Ya it compares to that price, $600.00 never been used.
<Or so that's the story they gave> :)

Keith

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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Monday, 24 April 2000 at 10:56:35 -0700, ke...@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?
>

> Greg
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Shawn Barnhart

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Apr 25, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/25/00
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On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:

> 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).

I can attest to DLT reliability. We've been using them exclusively for
backups for about four years now and have had only one drive failure in that
entire time, on our oldest Digital-branded DLT4000.

We have a mix of two 4000s and five 7000s locally that do about 200GB per
night 5 nights per week. Restores are thankfully less frequent, but I've
never had a media failure and I often have to merge/restore from a tape
that's 2-3 years old.

I find that DDS-2 tapes of that vintage are worthless, and I only wish that
the DDS-2 drives I've used (mixture of Archive Python and HP) had anywhere
near the reliability that the DLT drives have shown.

The only bad thing I can say bad about DLT drives is the changer we have,
Quantum mumblesomthing, kind of sucks rocks. It's fine once it gets a DLT
tape in the recorder, but the changer mechanism is slower than molasses,
partly due to the inherently slow DLT mount time.

Greg Lehey

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On Tuesday, 25 April 2000 at 9:40:39 -0700, ke...@mail.telestream.com wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Monday, 24 April 2000 at 10:56:35 -0700, ke...@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.

Greg
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On Tuesday, 25 April 2000 at 17:06:23 -0700, ke...@mail.telestream.com wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 25 April 2000 at 9:40:39 -0700, ke...@mail.telestream.com wrote:
>>> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Monday, 24 April 2000 at 10:56:35 -0700, ke...@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.

Jeff Beley

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Apr 26, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/26/00
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Now, has any one used one of the these devices over the netowrk(say to a
Novell or Windows box)?

On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 12:48:10PM +0930, Greg Lehey <gr...@lemis.com> wrote:
> On Monday, 24 April 2000 at 23:14:02 -0400, Lanny Baron wrote:
> > Greg,
> >

> > On 25-Apr-00 Greg Lehey wrote:
> >> On Monday, 24 April 2000 at 10:56:35 -0700, ke...@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?
> >

> > That tape drive you price below, would it be the same as this model:
> > Quantum DLT 4000 20/40 LVD Internal
>
> Yes.
>
> Greg
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