12 Dec
2001
12 Dec
'01
9:30 a.m.
Hi everybody,
For those of you who've read my notes on the MIPS RISComputers I'm trying to
get going, I ask this because I may want to replace the QIC-120 drive that's
missing from one of them with a different model.
I'd like some opinions on tape drives. The drive would need to plug into a
SCSI interface, and I'd like it to fit in a 5.25" half-height bay. That's
pretty much all I'd require from it. It would be nice if the drive held at
least as much as a QIC-120 (about 120MB, it so happens ;), and was
inexpensive and easy to get used.
Any suggestions? What's the going price on DDS-1 these days?
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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12 Dec
12 Dec
11:09 a.m.
You might consider the Seagate STT8000 series in a scsi form. It stores
4gb natively on a Travan cartridge. They go for about $160.00, tapes are
preformatted (servo type) and go for $20.00 or so.
I've had hands on many of the ide models and own an external scsi version
myself.
Regards,
Jeff
In <3B55D7F383B0D31197D9009027541CBF1170DF9B(a)cmiexch1.cmi.itds.com>om>, on
12/12/01
at 02:30 PM, Christopher Smith <csmith(a)amdocs.com> said:
Hi everybody,
For those of you who've read my notes on the MIPS
RISComputers I'm trying
to get going, I ask this because I may want to replace the QIC-120 drive
that's missing from one of them with a different model.
I'd like some opinions on tape drives. The drive
would need to plug into
a SCSI interface, and I'd like it to fit in a 5.25" half-height bay.
That's pretty much all I'd require from it. It would be nice if the
drive held at least as much as a QIC-120 (about 120MB, it so happens ;),
and was inexpensive and easy to get used.
Any suggestions? What's the going price on DDS-1
these days?
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '
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11:41 a.m.
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:
Any suggestions? What's the going price on DDS-1
these days?
I have 2 DDS-1 drives I paid $10 apiece for, as yet untested. If
DDS turns out to be your ticket, and either of these work, I'll pass
one along for the same $10.
Now I got a reason to see if they work. ;^)
See ya later,
Doc
4:03 p.m.
Some DDS-1 drives can do straight 2gb, others ahve hardware compression to
4. I had 2 WangDAT 3100's that only did 2, swapped them out for 2 3200's
that can do either 2 or 4. Nice drives, about $10-24 each dependant on
condition or seller and tapes are relatively cheap, even new ones. I prefer
the HP branded tapes myself, plenty of luck with them so far.
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-> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Doc
-> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:41 PM
-> To: Classiccmp (E-mail)
-> Subject: Re: Tape drives (which one to look for?)
->
->
-> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:
->
-> > Any suggestions? What's the going price on DDS-1 these days?
->
-> I have 2 DDS-1 drives I paid $10 apiece for, as yet untested. If
-> DDS turns out to be your ticket, and either of these work, I'll pass
-> one along for the same $10.
-> Now I got a reason to see if they work. ;^)
->
-> See ya later,
-> Doc
->
->
4:57 p.m.
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote:
Some DDS-1 drives can do straight 2gb, others ahve
hardware compression to
4. I had 2 WangDAT 3100's that only did 2, swapped them out for 2 3200's
that can do either 2 or 4. Nice drives, about $10-24 each dependant on
condition or seller and tapes are relatively cheap, even new ones. I prefer
the HP branded tapes myself, plenty of luck with them so far.
Memorex! ~$3 each, excellent performance. Although at 3 bux a tape, I
usually rotate 'em out after 12 or 15 overwrites. Paranoid is my middle
name...
Doc
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