weis@netmbx.UUCP (Dietmar Weis) (05/28/91)
The tape drive is called HP35480A and has a capacity of 8 GB. Has anyone already used it - with DEC Hardware, and can tell me sth about it, especially under Ultrix 4.x, (and VMS as well). Comes with own driver, is really fast, or is faulty and so on. Please followup to c.sys.dec, as it is propably of common interest. Thank you very much. Dietmar -- weis@netmbx.UUCP | Dietmar Weis DONOP CONSULT GmbH Voice: 030/884 28 54-0 | Uhlandstrasse 179/180 Fax: 030/882 55 29 | D - 1000 Berlin 12
kev@hpcpbla.HP.COM (Kevin Jones) (05/29/91)
"HP35480A" is the number for the OEM drive (ie. no box or power supply). This product is not yet in volume production. Only OEM evaluation units are shipping at present. It will be in full production "shortly". The HP35480A is a DDS DAT drive with built in data compression hardware. The drive's capacity is dependant on the "compressability" of the data it has to store. The compression is based on a "Lempel-Ziv" type algorithm, similar to that used by the UNIX "compress" command. The 8Gbyte figure is based on the assumption that host data can be compressed by a factor of 4. Regards, Kevin Jones. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Jones. | Hewlett Packard Ltd, | Computer Peripherals Bristol, kev%hpcpbla@hplb.hpl.hp.com | Filton Road, | Stoke Gifford, Tel: 011 44 272 799910 (ext 22351) | Bristol. BS12 6QZ. | ENGLAND. ----------------------------------------------------------------- This response does not represent the official position of, or statement by, the Hewlett-Packard Company. The above data is provided for informational purposes only. It is supplied without warranty of any kind.