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- From: brian@umbc4.umbc.edu (Brian Cuthie)
- Subject: Re: DAT drive wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.050131.21769@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
- References: <BwuBHD.C0A@newcastle.ac.uk> <1992Nov02.130149.13890@cyantic.com> <1992Nov4.181245.4221@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:01:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov4.181245.4221@ohm.york.ac.uk> nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) writes:
- >In <1992Nov02.130149.13890@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) writes:
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- >>I can't be 100% certain, but the HP DAT formats may be proprietary.
- >>Can anyone confirm/deny this?
- >
- >Definitely NOT.
- >The HP DATs use the DDS standard which is the Industry Standard
- >(originally designed by HP & Sony). The compression is also
- >industry standard (can't remember the acronym).
- >
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- It's DCLZ compression (compression algorithm 0x20 in the mode select page).
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- >We have had no problem transferring data off site using HP DAT
- >drives - no idea what the other end uses! However there are a lot
- >of pre-standard drives around - the old WangDATs were non-standard
- >although I think new ones are DDS.
- >
- > Nigel.
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- -brian
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