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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Getting the full 2.0 Gb from DAT's
- Message-ID: <skdn1k0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 03:04:34 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.182144.728@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1992Nov20.182144.728@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> markb@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (Mark R. Baith) writes:
- | I understand that there is a DAT bug on SGI's that limits the total
- | archive space to 1.2 Gb, even though you may be using a 90M or
- | 2.0 Gb tape. I understand that the magazine pipeline recently
- | published a fix. Can someone pass the fix along? Thanks -M
-
- There is no such bug. All DAT drives that SGI has ever shipped
- support the 90 meter tape. There were earlier drives shipped by
- Ardat (and other vendors) that did *not* support the longer tape,
- because it didn't exist when the firmware was written.
-
- I have never seen any such article in the Pipeline. If it is there,
- and is on this subject, it is wrong.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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