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Re: Suggest a Tape Drive Please!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allen Francom)
Tue Nov 26 18:40:44 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 07:44:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Allen Francom <redhat_list@numedics.com>
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I've used Excebyte 8mm in one form or another for many years.
Cheap media, works great, etc.,
Contemporary Cybernetics if you have cash and are serious...
They use the Excebyte unit with their own interface and extra extra
compression.
Can you believe 75GB or so on one 8mm tape ?
THX
-AEF
On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Jeff Hutchison wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, James Jones wrote:
>
> > I need a tape drive that works under Linux with as little pain as possible.
> >
> > Something at lease 1G or greater. I have fought and fought with a HP
> > Colorado Tape drive for 3 weeks and still can't get it online.
>
> IMHO, HP SCSI 4mm dat tape drives work great. Of the several I have, I like
> the 2-4 GB (hardware compression) because the compression really improves the
> read/write rate.
>
> Jeff Hutchison <jhut@inst.strykercorp.com>
> Stryker Instruments
> Kalamazoo, MI
>
>
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