ballen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bruce Allen) (10/08/90)
I have a SparcStation with a 150Mbyte desktop tape drive unit. This unit is supposed to be used with DC6150 1/4 inch tape cartridges, of which I have a reasonable supply. I also have large numbers of DC600, DC300, and DC450 tapes from my old Sun 3/60. These tapes are fairly useless to me now ... or so I thought. On a whim, I decided to try using one of the old (60 Mybte) tapes in the new tape drive, which writes in a 150 Mbyte format. It worked fine. I wrote 140 Mbytes of stuff to the tape, read it back onto disk and did a diff -r to check that all the data had been correctly saved. It was all there, intact. So to get to the point - how many of you are using old tapes with the new drive? Have you had good/bad experiences? What is your advice? Please, no long winded replies along the lines of "your data is priceless, throw out your old tapes and buy 50 more DC6150's, etc. I won't use old tapes for my system backups. Bruce Allen
prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) (10/27/90)
In a recent article ballen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bruce Allen) writes: >I have a SparcStation with a 150Mbyte desktop tape drive unit. This unit >is supposed to be used with DC6150 1/4 inch tape cartridges, of which I >have a reasonable supply. I also have large numbers of DC600, DC300, and >DC450 tapes from my old Sun 3/60. These tapes are fairly useless to me >now ... or so I thought. I have had good experiences using old DC600A cartridges with a QIC-150 tape drive. However, I am not able to use any of the DC300A, DC300XL or DC300XL/P tapes. Robert Claeson |Reasonable mailers: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB | Dumb mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@sunet.se
rossc@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (Ross Cartlidge) (10/27/90)
I have a 207 Meg 3.5" Disk and would like to install it into the spare internal slot on an SS1 ( I have one Sun installed disk already). Has anyone had any experience in doing this - ie, getting the plastic mount, power and SCSI cables etc. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Ross Rodney Cartlidge | rossc@extro.ucc.su.oz.au University Computing Service, H08 | Phone: +61 2 6923497 University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia | FAX: +61 2 6606557