[1250] in SIPB-AFS-requests
Re: 8mm tape drive failing; AFS backup was not done
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (opus@MIT.EDU)
Thu Feb 17 11:26:06 1994
From: opus@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 94 11:25:06 -0500
To: David Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU, charon-maintainers@MIT.EDU, rtfm-maintainers@MIT.EDU,
sipb-staff@MIT.EDU, sipb-ec@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: David Krikorian's message of Thu, 17 Feb 94 05:05:35 -0500
I have an external DAT drive at home. It stores ~4GB per 90M tape
with compression, or 2GB without. I always have compression turned on
(it's part of the hardware), and haven't noticed any problems. It's
pretty fast, too.
It also has a nice feature, which would be good for the SIPB office:
it automatically tells you when it's time to clean the tape (every N
hours of use, I believe). When that happens, you simply insert the
cleaning tape, and wait until it ejects it.
This drive is made by Exabyte, and it cost $1000 about six months ago.
-Dave
