From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 19 04:36:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA25817 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:36:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sisyphos (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA25664 for ; Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:32:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sisyphos id AA17286 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for questions@freebsd.org); Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:31:34 +0100 Message-Id: <199603191231.AA17286@Sisyphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:31:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: me@tartufo.muc.ditec.de (Michael Elbel) "Re: HP 35480A help needed" (Mar 19, 13:01) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: me@gw.muc.ditec.de Subject: Re: HP 35480A help needed Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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