Drive inventory

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Feb 14 16:31:22 2002

There are several makers other than Exabyte who use 8mm. In fact, the only
really useful tape drives I know of nowadays, those of 50-250GB capacity, use
8mm media.

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: Drive inventory


> On Feb 14, 6:53, Doc wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> >
> > > >There are currently 5 DAT formats (DDS, DDS-1, DDS-2, DDS-3, and
> DDS-4)
> > > >and all are backward compatible.
> > >
> > > But, can a drive from manufacturer "A" read a DDS-1 tape written on
> > > manufacturer "B's" drive? It's been my understanding that sometimes
> even
> > > different model drives from the same manufacturer can't read the same
> tape.
> >
> > I've never seen that with either 4mm DDS-x or with 8mm DAT formats.
> > We do classroom loads of RS/6000s from tape quite often, making
> > tapes on, and installing from, a very wide assortment of drives. I've
> > never seen a load fail if the drive was rated for the tape format.
>
> Nitpick alert: DDS = DDS-1 (ie, it's the same thing -- originally called
> DDS but now sometimes called DDS-1 so that it's clearly not one of the
> later versions). So there are only 4 formats, not 5.
>
> Nitpick 2: 8mm is not DDS or DAT. It's Exabyte videotape.
>
> --
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 14 2002 - 16:31:22 GMT

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