Re: tlug: DAT tape drive

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>]

> I would recommend staying as far away from 4mm drives as
> possible. I've had two break at work and 1 at home. No amount of
Funny. I've had my HP-C-1533 for three years now and never had
trouble with it. Used it a lot to swap data with friends and
getting new Slackware from a friend at the University. Never had
any readability problems. Neither had any of my friends. They
also have that type of drive.
> tape was unreadable. I know they are not cheap, but 8mm Exabytes are
Ah ! Watch out whether they set the jumper on their drives for
"Compressed" or "Non compressed". For UNIX, non compressed is
usual, because gzip does a much better job than any compression
chip onboard the drive.

                                    Karl-Max Wagner
                                    karlmax@example.com
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