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Date: Sun 02-Oct-1991 03:06:48 From: erik@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu (Erik Schumacher) Subject: Tape Drives I am looking into buying a tape drive to make backups, and I wonder what experiences people had. Please send me info's about price, capacity and sources. I appreciate any information. -Erik
Date: Sun 05-Oct-1991 20:19:13 From: erik@zeus.opt-sci.arizona.edu (Erik Schumacher) Subject: Tape Drives (Summary) I posted a question about tape drives for the next. I did not get many replies, here are they: IME computers sells an Archive 150 drive. They work with the 250Meg tapes. It's pretty cheap ($500). If you do decide to buy it, it has some minor quirks that I can tell you how to work around. Hi Erik, I've been pondering the exact same question for a while now. I don't have any helpful info, but I sure would appreciate a summary of what you find out. I have a NeXTstation with NO current backup. If my harddrive dies, so do I. I've actually been thinking about getting a second hard drive and using it as backup. That way I'd certainly be able to boot up if the main drive dies. I'd sure like to read a summary of what you find! Greg ======================================================== In comp.sys.next.misc article <ERIK.91Oct1200648@zeus.math.arizona.edu> you wrote: > I am looking into buying a tape drive to make backups, and I wonder > what experiences people had. Please send me info's about price, > capacity and sources. I appreciate any information. > -Erik We have purchased a WangDAT 1300 from Fast Access for $1488.50. That price is for the drive (5 1/4" half height drive) without any enclosure. The tapes cost $12.50 each (from Fast Access) and hold ~1.3 GB each. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but will before too long. From what I've heard there shouldn't be any problems. Fast Access has pretty good prices, but I haven't been too thrilled with their service. They originally told us that our order would take two weeks, and it has been almost two months now and we're still waiting for a hard drive that we ordered. They say they're having trouble getting our drive, which I can understand. I just wish they had told us it would take this long. The WangDAT wasn't hard for them to get, and we received that about three weeks ago, though I had to call them and tell them to ship the part of our order that they did have. If you're interested in more information about actually using the WangDAT, send me mail and I'll let you know how it goes when I get around to setting it up. In comp.sys.next.misc article <ERIK.91Oct1200648@zeus.math.arizona.edu> you > I am looking into buying a tape drive to make backups, and I wonder what > experiences people had. Please send me info's about price, capacity and > sources. I appreciate any information. -Erik I am using an "ARCHIVE Python 25501" (5-1/4" Half-height DAT) with success. Note that the scsi tape driver on the NeXT will write variable length blocks. To read the variable length block, you will nned to put the tape driver into "MTIOCINIL" (inhibit illegal length, i.e. it does not report illegal length on reads). I have a program that will do this on the archives (part of sonata.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/submissions/scsitools.tar.Z). It's called "mtset". --- Charles Chambers =================================================================== Thanks for the answers. - Erik
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