From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 3 00:42:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03852 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 00:42:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from IAEhv.nl (root@iaehv.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA03847 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 00:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjw@surf.IAE.nl) Received: from surf.IAE.nl (root@surf.IAEhv.nl [194.151.66.2]) by IAEhv.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA01954; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:42:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wjw@localhost) by surf.IAE.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA05126; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:42:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Willem Jan Withagen Message-Id: <199807030742.JAA05126@surf.IAE.nl> Subject: Re: Apollo tapes (was: Variant Link implementation, continued) In-Reply-To: <199807030025.TAA18925@nospam.hiwaay.net> from David Kelly at "Jul 2, 98 07:25:29 pm" To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 09:42:12 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: wjw@IAEhv.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: wjw@IAEhv.nl X-NCC-RegID: nl.iae X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You ( David Kelly ) write: => They were written on 4mm DAT? Not something weird like QIC-100? Saw an => HP "development system" which wrote QIC-100 format to DC-6150 tapes, I => think. Tapes had to be formatted. Then they mounted like a filesystem. => Slower than a tax refund. Nope, it was an actual DAT. => In the early bad old days of DAT (more correctly known as DSS) there => were more problems than there should have been with one tape drive not => being able to read tapes from another, all other things the same. Now this could be a good case, since I remember ordering a DDS drive somewhere around 1889. -- Internet Access Eindhoven BV., voice: +31-40-2 393 393, data: +31-40-2 606 606 P.O. 928, 5600 AX Eindhoven, The Netherlands Full Internet connectivity for only fl 12.95 a month. Call now, and login as 'new'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message