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- From: rlee@bgsu.edu (Bob Lee)
- Subject: Tape Backups and memory
- Message-ID: <BtKJt7.7wo@andy.bgsu.edu>
- Sender: rlee@andy.bgsu.edu (Bob Lee)
- Organization: Bowling Green State Univ.
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 02:19:54 GMT
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- I am now the proud owner of a CMS 250 MB tape drive and I had just one
- question. Being new to the workings of tape backup systems I was a little
- disappointed when I found out that once you save a volume of files onto the
- tape there is no way to erase the volume unless you erase the whole tape.
- Is this a limitation of the hardware design of the tape drive or is there
- software out there that can make the tape drive "smarter" and allow volumes
- to be deleted and/or overwritten.
-
- I also have another question. I'm planning to add 2 more megs of RAM to my
- motherboard and would appriciate any direction to companies that have decient
- RAM prices. I need 18 80ns 1 M-bit DIP DRAM chips.
-
- Thanks for your help!
-
- -BOB
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