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Article #2546Re: DEC 4mm DAT tape drive - first impressions (long)
From: brodie
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1990 15:33
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1990 15:33
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In article <10947@sunquest.UUCP>, terry@venus.sunquest.com (Terry R. Friedrichsen) writes: > > Picked my favorite disk (the one with MY files on it :-) and fired up a plain, > unadorned tar(1) command. RDAT took right off, slapping bits on the tape at > a rate of about 200K bytes per second. About 45 minutes later, my 3/4 full > RZ56 was backed up. Rewind was pretty fast (20 seconds? maybe 30?). > > Hit the eject button, waited 15 seconds for the tape to spit back out, and > slid over the write-protect tab. First test complete; time to post a message > to the world! yeah, but maybe ultrix 4.1 is only required to RESTORE the data.. :-) ------ Kent C. Brodie - Sr. Systems Manager internet: brodie@fps.mcw.edu Faculty Physicians & Surgeons uucpnet: uwm.edu!fps!brodie Medical College of Wisconsin voicenet: +1 414 778 4500 faxnet: +1 414 778 6694 "Operator! Quick-- give me the number for 911" -Homer Simpson
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!fps.mcw.edu!brodie From: brodie@fps.mcw.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: DEC 4mm DAT tape drive - first impressions (long) Message-ID: <1990Dec7.103303.3666@fps.mcw.edu> Date: 7 Dec 90 15:33:03 GMT References: <10947@sunquest.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.sys.dec Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Lines: 20