From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Apr 10 01:16:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA09620 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 01:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA09597 Wed, 10 Apr 1996 01:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA22873; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:13:44 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604100843.SAA22873@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Tape drive FAQ To: lehey.pad@sni.de (Greg Lehey) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:13:44 +0930 (CST) Cc: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org, lehey.pad@sni.de, peter@taronga.com, doc@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604100711.JAA09723@nixpbe.pdb.sni.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Apr 10, 96 09:29:10 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[