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Re: Mammoth

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Dec 26 02:19:44 1996

Date: 	Thu, 26 Dec 1996 02:17:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Chai Harjo <c.harjo@student.anu.edu.au>
cc: submit-linux-dev-scsi@ratatosk.yggdrasil.com
In-Reply-To: <32C1D33E.2122@student.anu.edu.au>


On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Chai Harjo wrote:

> It is a 8mm tape drive, can save upto 20 GB (uncompressed),
> and 40 GB (compressed). It can backup 20GB/second!!!

Wow.  Fills a tape in 1s...that would really speed up my backups.  Since
it's not quite April 1, this must either be a typo or BS.  Size sounds
very much like DLT, which isn't exactly a new thing.

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