Re: DAT drive wanted

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From: Brian Cuthie
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:01

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In article <1992Nov4.181245.4221@ohm.york.ac.uk> nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham) writes:
>In <1992Nov02.130149.13890@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) writes:
>
>
>>I can't be 100% certain, but the HP DAT formats may be proprietary.
>>Can anyone confirm/deny this?
>
>Definitely NOT.
>The HP DATs use the DDS standard which is the Industry Standard
>(originally designed by HP & Sony).  The compression is also
>industry standard (can't remember the acronym).
>

It's DCLZ compression (compression algorithm 0x20 in the mode select page).


>We have had no problem transferring data off site using HP DAT
>drives - no idea what the other end uses!  However there are a lot
>of pre-standard drives around - the old WangDATs were non-standard
>although I think new ones are DDS.
>
>	Nigel.


-brian



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Brian Cuthie
Systemix Software, Inc.
brian@systemix.com

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