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In <C0nu13.MtD@news2.cis.umn.edu> mg26101@i1.msi.umn.edu (Ronald Sakaguchi) writes:
| What are the current capacities for QIC tape drives? Will a QIC 150

QIC150 gets ~150 MB on DC6150, and aprox ~250 MB on DC6250.

Drives up through QIC1350 (1.35 GB native) are available now, with up to
2.1GB 'soon', although not yet from SGI.

| drive write a 525MB tape to full capacity or does that require a
| different drive? Is the size only related to the length of the tape or

QIC525 tapes can only be written on a QIC525 or higher drive.  Up through
at least 2100, the drives can read and write in all formats down
to QIC150 (QIC120 for some), and read QIC24.

| other factors? Also, is it possible to append onto existing files on a
| QIC tape?

It is possible to append new files to QIC tape (following the last FM),
but  not to append in the sense that tar 'r' or 'u' needs, because that
requires the ability to do overwrite.
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