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From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:21:55 -0700
In-Reply-To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>
       "Anyone tried an IBM 3590 tape drive?" (Oct  8, 11:06am)
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Subject: Re: Anyone tried an IBM 3590 tape drive?
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On Oct 8, 11:06am, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote:
} Subject: Anyone tried an IBM 3590 tape drive?
} They're a differential SCSI device, rather large in size and run to about 
} 15-20GB. We use them here for seismic data. On a related note, what 
} differential SCSI controllers have people had luck with?

My impression is that seismic data is typically recorded with very large
record sizes (like a megabyte?).  I think the current limit in FreeBSD is
64K.

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