Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base
tape drive and use it for Mandrake?
I always found them to be a pain to use.
Getting them to work right is the first hurdle. Seemed like I was constantly
messing with it.
Even once it was running, it was slow. Real slow,
I have been using an old Tandberg QIC drive with some success for QIC carts.
I have a Travan or two in the junk box but I an loath to dig them out unless
I have to.
The only trouble I have ever had with tape drives is non-standard lengths of
carts. Linux has picked them up every time.
The
cases just for backup purposes...
Mike S.
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Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 21:46, Jim Tarvid wrote:
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:26 pm, you wrote:
Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base
tape drive and use it for Mandrake?
Only because they are ugly, unreliable and smell bad.
If you overrule that advice --
Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base tape drive and
use it for Mandrake?
--
Matthew
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On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:26 pm, you wrote:
Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base
tape drive and use it for Mandrake?
Only because they are ugly, unreliable and smell bad.
If you overrule that advice --
Buy two, make sure the carts interchange, and verify
Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base tap=
e drive and use it for Mandrake?
Because SCSI based DAT drives work better :). Personally I have not had
a Travan-based drive, but one thing I noticed is that the cost of the
tapes themselves are rather expensive.
