Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 07 Sep 1996 12:26:19 -0400 | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | Subject | Re: TRAVAN tape |
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David Monro wrote: > > > > > (Benchmarks are great, eh? <g>)
> Exactly. Of course a DLT is overkill for most home systems (do _you_ need to > back up 25Gb/night?), but great for big servers. DAT is good for serious home > users and medium servers at up to 6Gb per tape at about 600K/s. Below that > maybe the larger capacity QIC drives for up to a bit over a gig, and maybe > then Travan. After that, anything you can scrounge :-) (old QIC, old floppy > tape, maybe a SCSI reel to reel drive if you are completely mad) > > btw, does anybody know what (if anything) the density code 0x04 is used for? > My tape drive appears to accept densities 0x04, 0x05, 0x0f and 0x10, but mt > just says unknown for 0x04.
This IS getting off-topic but, to wind it up on my part, density code 0x04 is defined as QIC-11 format; totally obsolete. Most current drives will _read_ QIC-11 tapes (auto-sensing the format, I suppose) but cannot write them.
Steve
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