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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
- Subject: Re: QIC capacities?
- Keywords: QIC, tape drive
- Message-ID: <unhlur4@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 01:01:49 GMT
- References: <C0nu13.MtD@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <C0nu13.MtD@news2.cis.umn.edu> mg26101@i1.msi.umn.edu (Ronald Sakaguchi) writes:
- | What are the current capacities for QIC tape drives? Will a QIC 150
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- QIC150 gets ~150 MB on DC6150, and aprox ~250 MB on DC6250.
-
- Drives up through QIC1350 (1.35 GB native) are available now, with up to
- 2.1GB 'soon', although not yet from SGI.
-
- | drive write a 525MB tape to full capacity or does that require a
- | different drive? Is the size only related to the length of the tape or
-
- QIC525 tapes can only be written on a QIC525 or higher drive. Up through
- at least 2100, the drives can read and write in all formats down
- to QIC150 (QIC120 for some), and read QIC24.
-
- | other factors? Also, is it possible to append onto existing files on a
- | QIC tape?
-
- It is possible to append new files to QIC tape (following the last FM),
- but not to append in the sense that tar 'r' or 'u' needs, because that
- requires the ability to do overwrite.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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