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- From: Rick_Graetz@aprdlgtr.sps.mot.com (Rick Graetz)
- Subject: Re: Contemporary Cybernetics 8mm tape drive
- Message-ID: <Rick_Graetz-210792162117@222.21.248.1>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:34:26 GMT
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- In article <22469@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>, dave@scg8a.hac.com (Dave) wrote:
- >
- > Hi,
- > We are considering purchasing a Contemporary Cybernetics Group CY-8500
- > 8mm tape drive for backing up Sybase 4.9 databases on an HP 9000 model 847
- > running HP-UX 8.02. Does anyone out there own one of these things? I am
- > curious about:
- > 1. Compatibility with HP hardware and software.
- > 2. How effective the compression is.
- > Anyone have any opinions or advice?
- >
- > Thanks in advance!
- > Dave
-
- We purchased a pair of these drive to attach on our HP 9000 model 750
- running HP-UX 8.07. We had problems with using fbackup crashing the 750
- everytime we used it. After we threatened to send the drives back they
- sent out a field engineer to our site. The engineer was very knowledgeable
- and after a couple of attempts with new roms the drives were working fine.
- We haven't had any problems with the drives since then.
-
- Rick Graetz
-