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- From: stanj@ferrari.corp.sgi.com (Stan Jensen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Getting the full 2.0 Gb from DAT's
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.232212.3184@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 23:22:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.182144.728@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <skdn1k0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- In article <skdn1k0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- |> 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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- I think Mark heard about the "brutab" problem with DATs and if he sends me
- his FAX number, I will send him pages 12&13 from the Sep/Oct issue (V3#5).
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