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Article #315Re: exabyte compression questions
From: Jonathan M. Elson
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 03:07
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 03:07
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Steven Bridge (ccaasub@ucl.ac.uk) wrote: : We are using a Lago datawheel with two exabyte drives. : After a drive failure, one of these has been replaced with : a drive supplied by Lago Systems described on the box as : a 'DRIVE ASM,8500C'. : I believe this performs hardware compression. Nope! it is the 8505 that has the extra compression processor added. The 8500 just has an empty slot where the compression board would go. You need to make them get you an 8505. The 8500 will get massive errors and garble when it tries to read a tape written on an 8505 when the compression was turned on.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!newsreader.wustl.edu!mulberry!jmelson From: jmelson@artsci.wustl.edu (Jonathan M. Elson) Newsgroups: comp.arch.storage,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: exabyte compression questions Followup-To: comp.arch.storage,comp.periphs.scsi Date: 6 Oct 1995 03:07:50 GMT Organization: College of Arts and Sciences -- Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Message-ID: <4526i6$b76@newsreader.wustl.edu> References: <1995Oct5.155355.35889@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: jmelson%@mulberry.wustl.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]