--- Brad Spencer <brad@anduin.eldar.org> wrote:
> Although it is older, I use a Archive Python DDS2
> with a Archive tape
> changer attached to the front.  They probe like
> this:
> 
> st0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <ARCHIVE, Python
> 28849-XXX, 4.CM> SCSI2 1/sequential removable
> st0: drive empty
> ch0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 1: <ARCHIVE, Python
> 28849-XXX, 4.CM> SCSI2 8/changer removable
> ch0: 4 slots, 1 drive, 1 picker, 0 portals
> 
> 
> The DDS2 is a little small and I would like to
> replace it with a DLT of
> some sort, but those tend to be quite expensive.

From where I'm sitting, you don't want DLT. I support
a very tape intensive product, and DLT isn't up to it.
Never was. I'm not sure about DDS4, but it's probably
a viable option. It's not as fast I think. But I do
know that DLT gets far more write errors than any of
the other stuff I deal with on a regular basis (STK,
IBM, LTO).

Andy

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