DAT drive wanted

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4 total messages Started by S.A.McIntyre Wed, 28 Oct 1992 16:36

#58

Author: S.A.McIntyre
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 16:36

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I want a DAT drive for backup, the HP sounds good, but am having a hard  
time getting pricing...if you are a company and are selling DAT drives for  
the NeXT with software, please mail me as soon as you can with your  
pricing and availability...etc


Thanks!

Re: DAT drive wanted

#155

Author: Mark T. Dornfeld
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 13:01

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In article <BwuBHD.C0A@newcastle.ac.uk> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk writes:
>
>I want a DAT drive for backup, the HP sounds good, but am having a hard  
>time getting pricing...if you are a company and are selling DAT drives for  
>the NeXT with software, please mail me as soon as you can with your  
>pricing and availability...etc

I can't be 100% certain, but the HP DAT formats may be proprietary.
Can anyone confirm/deny this?
-- 

Mark T. Dornfeld                              Voice: (416) 234-9048
CYANTIC Systems                               Facsimile: (416) 234-0477
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Re: DAT drive wanted

#209

Author: Nigel Metheringham
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 18:12

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In <1992Nov02.130149.13890@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) writes:

>In article <BwuBHD.C0A@newcastle.ac.uk> S.A.McIntyre@durham.ac.uk writes:
>>
>>I want a DAT drive for backup, the HP sounds good, but am having a hard  
>>time getting pricing...if you are a company and are selling DAT drives for  
>>the NeXT with software, please mail me as soon as you can with your  
>>pricing and availability...etc

>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).

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.

PS Just a staisfied user, no commercial axe to grind.
-- 
#   Nigel Metheringham  -- (NeXT) EMail: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk    #
#   System Administrator, Electronics Dept, University of York    #
#   York YO1 5DD. Phone: +44 904 432374, Fax: +44 904 432335      #

Re: DAT drive wanted

#1032

Author: 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



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

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