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- From: paul@openage.com (Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant)
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- Subject: Re: Tape drive on floppy controller, no fun
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- Date: 29 Dec 92 14:08:29 GMT
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- >Yes, they can work successfully. It does require a little bit of
- >tinkering and making sure you have the JTAPE driver software from
- >Colorado.
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- >However, One BIG NOTE of WARNING!!!
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- >For those uninformed, the Colorado 120mb is actually a 60mb unit uncompressed,
- >and the Colorado 250mb is actually a 120mb uncompressed. If you use tar
- >you are limited to 60mb/120mb respectively.
-
- >If you are like us, and use CTAR, the compression will recoup some of the
- >area for you, depending on your file types.
-
- You can also buy the colorado compression adapter, and use the jtape software
- one the command line. The PROs:
- hardware compression
- lots of nifty options for logging and error reporting
- menu drived interface for normal users to restore from.
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- The CONs:
- Proprietary tape format
- can only transfer data to machine with same tape setup
- Slow
- Can't use compression with standard UNIX utilities (ie. there should
- be a compression device node available, but there is none!)
- tapes need formatting.
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