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> From: Doc
>
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>
> > DDS-2 and DDS-3 use physically different media. I don't know how this
> > figures if the standards are all supposed to be backward compatible.
>
> Actually, DDS and DDS2 different media, but not as in
> different form factors. IIRC, DDS1 is 90m, DDS2 is 120m, and DDS3 is
> also 120m. They have and identifier embedded in the media that tells
> the drive which DDS the tape is. I know for sure that a DDS1 drive will
> simply spit out a DDS2 or DDS3 tape, and I think that holds true up the
> line.
> A DDS2 drive will read DDS1 archives, and write a DDS1 tape in DDS1
> format. I dunno about DDS3. Every shop I've worked with who used DDS3
> drives used DDS3 tapes exclusively.
>
> Doc
>
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DDS3 is 125m. Have one right here :) DDS3 drives work fine with DDS2
tapes, under NT4 and VMS. That's the size combination we're using here at
work.
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