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From: battan@qtc.UUCP (Jim Battan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: Looking for 8mm video tape information wrt sequent
Summary: works onto Suns
Message-ID: <445@qtc.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 89 21:20:11 GMT
References: <3297@rtech.rtech.com>
Reply-To: battan@qtc.UUCP (Jim Battan)
Organization: Quantitative Technology Corporation, Beaverton OR
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In article <3297@rtech.rtech.com> sid@rtech.COM (Sid Shapiro) writes:
>I'm interested in hearing everything about 8mm tape drives.

We have an Exabyte hooked up to the SCSI port on a Sun 3/60, to which
our Sequent S27 does rdump's.  We can dump 100MB from three zd disks
in about 16 minutes (according to last night's level 6).  For safety's
sake, we still do level 0s onto the 1/2" drive, but we probably don't
have to (there's always the boot tapes).  We got our drive from Perfect
Byte (an excellent company to deal with, BTW) for $4,000.  Tapes are
$7 for the 2GB variety.  Exabyte now recommends a cleaning every 30GB,
so we're buying the two-cycle cleaning kit for $25.

Anyone wanna buy 80 1/2" 2400ft magtapes?  :-)
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