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[Phil Schilling]

I've had pretty good luck with hp dats.  The DDS4 on my e250 is Sun
badged hp product and hp has setup with solaris for most of their drives
on the website.

I have a Surestore 5000 I might part with contact me offlist.

Phil


On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:11:04 -0700 (MST)
Arthur Wouk <awouk at ra.nilenet.com> wrote:

> :Subject: Re: [rescue] anyone with a 4mm dat of reasonable capacity to
> sell Content-Length: 2151
> 
> 
> but which on ebay will fit in a 411 box? and will accept solaris
> drivers. when i checked ebay i found that those i checked were set up
> for windows.
> 
> :From: Jeffrey Nonken <jeff_work at nonken.net>
> :
> :On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:23:13 -0700 (MST), Arthur Wouk
> <awouk at ra.nilenet.com>:wrote:
> :
> :> my 4mm dat tape drive had a mechanical failure (won't take in new
> :> tape, mangled the one it ejected - didn't release the tape). so i
> am:> looking for a replacement. the old one sits in a 411 box 50pin
> scsi.:> it is a 2/4gig drive.
> :>
> :> anyone with an extra email me. if the email bounces, don't worry -
> my:> procmail filters log all bounces, and when i fix a path through
> them,:> i will let you know.
> :
> :A quick search for DDS-1 drives on eBay didn't show anything, but
> DDS-2 and:DDS-3 are backwards-compatible.
> :
> :http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&q
> uery=DDS-:3
> :
> :http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&q
> uery=DDS-:2
> :
> :eBay is your friend. :)
> :
> :I believe that DDS-4 is only compatible as far back as DDS-2, so it
> won't let:you re-use your old tapes. Just for the record, DDS-3 is a
> more reliable:format than DDS-2, in addition to being a 6x increment
> in capacity. So I:recommend you just go straight to DDS-3 if you can.
> :
> :If you aren't familiar with tape lengths, they are:
> :60: DDS-1, capacity: 1.2g
> :90: DDS-1, capacity: 2g
> :120: DDS-2, capacity: 4g
> :125: DDS-3, capacity: 12g
> :I don't know what length DDS-4 is and I'm too lazy to look. :)
> Capacity is:20g.
> :
> :Those are uncompressed capacities. Double those figures for
> compressed:capacities, if it makes you feel good and you believe that
> you can actually:achieve 2:1 compression on anything but
> highly-repetitive data. My experience:(on complete drive backups) has
> been about 1.5:1, on a good day with a:running
> :start and a tail-wind.
> :
> :My own experience is that Sony drives are better than HP, but YMMV. I
> presume:either will work on Sun, but I've never tried, so I can't
> answer to that. The:DDS-3 Sony heads have a 20% duty cycle, the HP
> version only has a 12% duty:cycle. I don't know anything about Seagate
> drives.:
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Phil Schilling
GCS Tech