Well... I looked at the specs for your drive and it does a Meg/sec.... 30
gig's would take just over 8 hours (if my math was correct :) where most
SCSI backups can double that figure and do the same backup in only 4 hours.
That would be one reason.

Regards,
Mike Cantrell

----- Original Message -----
From: <holtzm@primenet.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:37 PM
Subject: Re: Tape Backup


> At 07:37 PM 05/30/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >For an IDE tape drive it's probably /dev/ftape, I think. IDE sucks for
> >backups :).
>
> Care to educate me as to why it sucks?
> TIA
> Bob Holtzman
> "If you think you're getting free lunch,
> check the price of the beer!"
>
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