14 Mar
2005
14 Mar
'05
8:25 a.m.
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:54:25 -0500, Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic.com> wrote:
My view is that there are PC class tapes and real
tapes. Real tapes
include classic half inch reel, DLT, and presumably IBM' cartridges (I
haven't used those). The most obvious nasty example of PC class tapes
are QIC cartridges. DAT is similar -- those are miniature video
tapes, forced into pretending to be data tapes.
All my years dealing with the DEC TK tapes (from the 1st gen TK50 to
the SCSI-based TZ89), aftter that Quantum DLTs to today's SDLTs and
LTOs; I've never had any trouble with them.
DATs on the other hand.....
/wai-sun