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- From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
- Subject: Will Dell load off a Wangdat DAT?
- Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:56:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <2B31F4A1.6C66@telly.on.ca>
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- I have an associate who was interested in Dell UNIX. His system is a
- vanilla 486 with a Wangdat DAT drive, and he was pleased to hear that
- the Dell product came on DAT media.
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- So he ordered it.
-
- The news lately hasn't been so good. The Dell docs specify an HP DAT
- drive. The tape won't load from the Wangdat, and Dell's answer on the
- phone (to him) was to either buy an HP drive or send back the UNIX.
-
- I didn't realize that DAT drives were so incompatible. Is this normal
- that one company's drive would not read a tape made on another company's
- drive?
-
- My associate is not on the net (can't get his UNIX running, remember?),
- but I will forward any suggestions.
-
- Thanks.
-
- --
- Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software Ltd., located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
- evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!utzoo!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
- "IBM's three letters are probably EBCDIC for CYA" - Nik H.
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