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- From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Subject: Re: DAT drivers for the AMIGA???????
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:24:30 GMT
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- Danny R. Boxhoorn (danny@shapley.astro.rug.nl) wrote:
-
- > The speed of a DAT, or any TAPE for that matter, and the data-density of it
- > are not related to each other. This means that it is possible to use
- > DATs at f.e. 5 times the usual speed while keeping the data-density (measured
-
- Perhaps, but the DAT backup device I bought (an Archive Python, from a
- Sun workstation) does not do this. I don't know of any that do for
- workstations either. They all use audio transfer speeds, but you get a
- little more bandwidth from compression depending on the data you are
- transferring.
-
- - steve
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