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- From: mcbryde@navier.math.uh.edu (Jack Mcbryde)
- Subject: Re: What type of tapes to use?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.162218.5185@menudo.uh.edu>
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- References: <01050810.8rn9hz@mbeckman.mbeckman.com> <1992Jul21.185022.25911@pencom.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:22:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.185022.25911@pencom.com> brent@ughtas (Brent Terry) writes:
- >In article <01050810.8rn9hz@mbeckman.mbeckman.com>
- >mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman) writes:
- >>
- >> In article <1992Jul14.152053.16357@cdsac.uucp> (comp.unix.aix),
- >scotte@cdsac.uucp (L. Scott Emmons) writes:
- >> > Actually, the IBM QIC tape drives (model 7207) only support 60MB
- >> > (DC600) and 150MB (DC6150) tapes.
- >>
- >> I'm embarking on a government project that uses RS/6000 220's and the
- >7207
- >> external tape drive. The hardware isn't here yet, but I just received a
- >> shipment of supplies (govt supplied), including a slew of blank tapes
- >marked
- >> as "3M DC300". The bpi density is given as 10,000 and the length as 450
- >> feet, which seems to me to work out to only 50MB per tape. Am I
- >confused,
- >> or is the government, or what? The list given above has DC600 and
- >DC6150,
- >> but doesn't mention DC300. Did I get the wrong tapes (I need 150MB)?
- >>
- >> -mel
- >>
- >>
- >
- >You got the wrong tapes!!!! You need the DC6150's
-
- Actually the DC600's will work if you want to use the rmtX.4-rmtX.7 flags,
- and I have heard if people using them without the flags with some success.
- You're better off with the DC6150's though.
-
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- * Christ died for our sins. Dare we * Is to be a drinker and fornicator
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