Subject: Re: Best backup medium/device for NetBSD?
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/24/1999 20:13:37
At 13:54 Uhr +0100 24.01.1999, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

[Nomai 540]

>The reason I would not recommend it is that the failure rate of the
>cartridges is abominable. The 5 year warranty is practically useless
>for me--I got the big runaround until I was told to contact Nomai
>directly. I finally got an RA and sent them off to France (from
>Chicago, I pay postage). Of the two I got back, one of them was DOA;
>I was able to fix the tab on the other with a screwdriver and hammer.

That's... impressive. I use a JAZ 1G drive at work to store sources upon
and haven't had any trouble so far, but still - you have the data density
of an average hard disk, only without any filtering.

	hauke



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