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 be a lot happier. :)
-Original Message-
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 about using the Travan tape drives is -- don't.
We used them for about a year until they started giving all
kinds of wierd
problems that appeared to be hardware related, timeouts, not
able to read
tapes after they were written, etc.
Bill
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