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- From: maj@ashby.cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: 2Gig Rule??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.084249.3015@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 08:42:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug30.055157.1084@crc.ricoh.com>
- Sender: pb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Piete Brooks)
- Reply-To: maj@ashby.cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
- Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
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- > How can you take advantage of a 8500
- > when DEC won't even write up to half of the tape.
-
- Well I'm quite happy with mine, thank you. Surely the most common
- use of these beasts is for backups. Although it is possible that somebody
- would want a single dump > 2Gb, at the moment I would guess that that
- was a little unusual. More common must be to dump multiple partitions
- one after another to the tape, separated by filemarks. There is no
- problem making use of the whole tape that way.
-
- Martyn Johnson maj@cl.cam.ac.uk
- University of Cambridge Computer Lab
- Cambridge UK
-