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- From: was@gdwb.oz.au (Warren Stokes)
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- Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 Tapes
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- Date: 1 Sep 92 02:57:47 GMT
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- tyen@cs.utexas.edu (Anthony Yen) writes:
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-
- >I just want to double check things before I tell my purchaser that he
- >botched up a tape order...
-
- >How can I tell if a Sony data grade 8mm tape is rated for 5 Gb
- >capacity? I have tapes that come in these opaque white cases, and the
- >tape shell has orange lettering on them. The tape length is listed at
- >112 metres, and the tape designation is QG-112M. Earlier discussions
- >indicated that doubling the tape length parameter to dump will take
- >care of moving to 5 Gb tapes, but is the actual physical length of the
- >tape doubled or is the tape density increased?
-
- >I'm pretty sure I got 2 Gb tapes when I asked for 5 Gb tapes, through
- >empirical tests where I used the same dump commands as I've always
- >used before, only doubling the tape length parameter. I just ran the
- >dumps until the drive complained of EOT, then tallied up the capacity
- >of the volumes dumped, and arrived at around 2.3 Gb.
-
- The way the helical scan works the tapes are written at the same density
- whether 5 G or 2.3 G. Therefore the tapes used for 2.3 G are the same
- as those used for 5 G. The "linear" density of the bits has not increased -
- just more of the tape is used.
-
- Confusing isn't it.
-
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