My experience with Colorado puts me in the "don't buy their stuff" camp. As bad as the
Ditto experience I javd had is, my Colorado was worse. I used to be a Colorado
booster, however, I could get no service or help from HP for my old Colorado tape
drive. In fact they wanted to charge me for simple information. I scrapped it !! I am
afriad the only tapes I will trust now are expensive ones. Whether they are any better
is a mystery !!
Does anyone make a fast, reliable, tape backup system that doesn't cost >$500 ??
In a message dated Wed, 15 Dec 1999 3:16:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Fabio
Lissandrini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Having definitely abandoned the possibility of a professional use of the
> ditto max tape drive (41 hours for filling a 5/10GB tape is not
> acceptable!), I'm now looking at the market of backup units capable of
> almost
> 5BG (not compressed) capacity.
> I'm evaluating the following products:
> - HP Colorado (suitable in 5-8-14-20 GB format) IDE travan tape drive
> - the new DVD-RAM drives (such as SD-W1101 and SD-W1111 from Toshiba)
> The latter solution is, according to me, very interesting.
>
> Do anyone known something about the compatibility (and affidability) of
> these solutions with
> Linux? Are them expected to work fine without any non-standard support, as
> far as they are standard IDE or SCSI devices? I hope this, but unfortunately
> it's impossible to try them before buying... and I'd like to avoid another
> "ditto max" experience.
>
> Regards
> Fabio Lissandrini
