30 Sep
2004
30 Sep
'04
11:58 a.m.
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 00:11 +0100, Antonio Carlini wrote:
As has been pointed out in private email (and
probably
here once it turns up) TLZ04 (60m tapes) is before
the DDS nomenclature started, 90m is DDS1,
120m is DDS2, 125m is DDS3.
60M DDS tapes also exist though - I have quite a few on the shelf above
me, made by various manafacturers. I believe any DDS-1 DAT drive will
read/write 60 or 90M DDS tapes (that *may* vary by drive manufacturer
though) - it's just that TLZ04's happen to be 60M but not DDS.
60M DDS tapes are 1.3GB, 90M DDS tapes are 2.0GB and 120M DDS-2 tapes
are 4GB, IIRC. No idea about DDS-3; I've got one stray DDS-3 tape I
think but no drive to put it in :-)
My drives always seem to protect themselves
by chewing all the tapes, so I've never managed to
dirty a head, never mind wear one out :-)
Mine too. They self-destruct long before the head wears out :-) Always
keep a backup DAT drive handy for your backup tapes... ;-)
cheers
Jules