Re: exabyte compression questions

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From: "John R. Vanderpool"
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:41

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Lee Ward <lee> writes:

>jmelson@artsci.wustl.edu (Jonathan M. Elson) wrote:
>>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.

>Exabyte does make an 8500C. It is indeed an 8500 with compression. The 8500C
>will read tapes written on 8200, 8500 and 8500C, at least. I've been told that
>8505 and 8500C write/compress the same. Haven't verified it though.

they use the same LZ and are fully compatible (i've tested it)

hi lee ;-)  hey, your news From: line is bogus, or is that on purpose?...

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