Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:31:33 +0100 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: me@gw.muc.ditec.de Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP 35480A help needed Message-ID: <199603191231.AA17286@Sisyphos> In-Reply-To: me@tartufo.muc.ditec.de (Michael Elbel) "Re: HP 35480A help needed" (Mar 19, 13:01)
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On Mar 19, 13:01, Michael Elbel wrote: } Subject: Re: HP 35480A help needed } Since the HP35480A is a DDS-1 drive, it won't read/write 120 meter tapes. } You need a HP C1533A for that. I've not managed to write 60 and 90 meter } tapes on one of these under FreeBSD though although it *should* work. My HP C1533A reads and writes 90m tapes just fine ... If you consider buying a new DAT drive, I'd ask Sony for the new SDT7000 series drives, which are said to have a native data rate of some 700KB/s (i.e. four times the original DDS-1 data rate of 183KB/s), while the HP 1553 offers three times the original rate). Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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