8 May
2007
8 May
'07
6:53 p.m.
--- "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net> wrote:
Hm, I have a couple of Exabyte drives, but no
media to go with them. I got
them along with a whole mess of other stuff that was
part of an IBM disk
array setup -- SSA? Something like that, I can't
recall. I remember the
guy I got them from telling me that the tapes would
hold something like 20G
each. Does this sound like those tapes?
Not quite. Those drives are probably too new - the
Exabyte Mammoth drives. Those can hold 20 gb on a
tape, but require different tapes - AME instead of the
MP tapes. AME stands for Advanced Metal Evaporated or
something, as opposed to Metal Particle tapes like
those used for video. The MP tapes won't work and will
most likely clog up the heads on a Mammoth drive. The
8200, 8500, 8505 and 8700 drives take MP tapes, the
8900 and newer take AME. Somewhere along the line I
think they changed them again though.
Hm. Maybe when I run across these next I'll have
to
note the model numbers in
here. :-)
Yes - there is a chance they're the older 8505/8505c
drives that can do 7 gb or 14gb compressed using 160m
MP tapes. The older drives (8200/8500) were full
height.
-Ian