[plug] Seagate Travan drives, possibly Seagates worst product?

[navarre at plug.linux.org.au]

Thanks Kevin

I stand corrected - I am possibly confused with the TR1 to 3 rather than 
what I said before. As I think I said my involvement with these tape 
drives was several years ago.

Navarre 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 2/13/01, 9:13:23 PM, Kevin Shackleton <kevins at wn.com.au> wrote regarding 
Re: [plug] Seagate Travan drives, possibly Seagates worst product?:


> The DDS2 and DDS3 drives are DAT-type drives - helical scan, cost about
> $1500.

> Travan/QIC drives are much more roughly made and cost about $300.

> Pay peanuts, get monkeys I guess.

> K.

> navarre at plug.linux.org.au wrote:
> >
> > The Seagate and other brands of tape drives called DDS[1-3] (one through
> > three ) QIC and the others all fall into this class of defective unit.