NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/unix/sys5/r4/893

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From: [e-mail] (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Re: Will Dell load off a Wangdat DAT?
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:01:41 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
=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.
=
=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?

I'm sure that this is helpful, but I was able to create a tar archive on
a DAT in an HP machine that I was later able to read on a WangDAT. And
the tar archive I created with the WangDAT was readable on that very
same HP.