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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:13:44 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey)
Cc:        jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, lehey.pad@sni.de, peter@taronga.com, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tape drive FAQ
Message-ID:  <199604100843.SAA22873@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199604100711.JAA09723@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Apr 10, 96 09:29:10 am

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Greg Lehey stands accused of saying:
> 
> This doesn't sound like the QIC I'm talking about.  QIC-150, I know,
> has 80 kB/s, and I think QIC-525 is round the 100 kB/s mark.  Even

... it's possible they up the media speed too.

> assuming the density increase is because of bpi, you'd still only be
> round 250 kB/s.

And IIRC the Anaconda has hardware compression.  I'm fairly certain
it's still a DC600-size cart, not a DC2000.

> Greg

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