3 Oct
2009
3 Oct
'09
10:39 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: 8MM Tape drives
On 3 Oct 2009 at 3:42, Teo Zenios wrote:
I beg to differ.
My list says
- DLT -
- QIC and 8 mm
- 3480/3490
- DDS
- (long pause)
- floppy tape / Travan (QIC-80)
Just the principle of writing a tape through the floppy interface, disgusts
me. Formatting a tape takes a very long time; ISTR about an hour. Must have
been invented by the devil.
Nico
I hit the local recycler today and purchased a
few tapes drives.
Snagged a DDS3 external, DDS4 external, and a cool looking IBM drive
that I was hoping might have been AIX. Turns out its an 8MM Mammoth
20/40GB drive (looks like ebay #290335147769). The drive had a couple
AS/400 stickers on it and appears to be HVD (with terminator attached
on the back). Are these drives pretty decent, reliable, and fast?
After having supported a bunch of government customers using various
tape media for about a decade or so, my recommendation usually was:
DLT is better than
8mm is better than
DDS is better than
QIC
(With floppy-tape and Travan included in that last classification).