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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: advice on DAT drives
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.180015.27628@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 18:00:15 GMT
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- In article <Bu5G3C.1Bv@constant.demon.co.uk>, slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley) writes:
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- | I know very little about tape drives so could someone help me with a bit
- | of advice;
- |
- | 1) bearing in mind that my main criterion is tape size, is my
- | choice of DAT sensible?
-
- You can use DAT, Exabyte, or 525MB QIC tape. The last may use some
- compression scheme, but it doesn't matter because I think DAT is the
- best choice.
- | 2) will any DAT drive work on my SVR4 486 system (in theory)?
-
- We've used both Archive and WangDAT, and they seem to work on multiple
- systems including multiple o/s vendors.
- | 3) am I likely to be able to swap tapes with other users who have
- | DAT and restore them on my machine?
-
- If you don't use compression in the drive, yes.
- | 4) what drives are out there that are cheap but work? (BTW I
- | shall probably be buying from the US as prices are much lower
- | so a US supplier would be fine.)
-
- We have only used the brands I mentioned. Neither is cheap, most
- places that discount one discount the other, and prices are similar.
- Expect to pay about $1000 for a drive.
- | 5) Will I necessarily need a SCSI interface for a DAT drive?
-
- I don't know of non-SCSI interfaces.
-
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