car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) (01/08/91)
We are considering the purchase of an 8mm tape drive for backup purposes. I would appreciate any info/experience that anyone can offer. Price, speed, service, interfacing, unix-able-ness, storage, etc... I have a Nixdorf Targon M35/50 (Pyramid 9810). The plan would be to connect the new 8mm tape drive to the system as drive 1. (Drive 0 is the 9track tape drive that came with the system). Thanks, car. -- Christopher A. Rende Central Cartage (Nixdorf/Pyramid/SysVR2/BSD4.3) uunet!edsews!rphroy!trux!car Multics,DTSS,Unix,Shortwave,Scanners,UnixPC/3B1 trux!car@uunet.uu.net Minix 1.2,PC/XT,Mac+,TRS-80 Model I,1802 ELF trux!ramecs!car "I don't ever remember forgetting anything." - Chris Rende
mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard) (01/12/91)
In article <524@trux.UUCP> car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes: >We are considering the purchase of an 8mm tape drive for backup purposes. > >I would appreciate any info/experience that anyone can offer. >Price, speed, service, interfacing, unix-able-ness, storage, etc... > >I have a Nixdorf Targon M35/50 (Pyramid 9810). > >The plan would be to connect the new 8mm tape drive to the system as drive 1. >(Drive 0 is the 9track tape drive that came with the system). We have a Cybernetics CY-8200-PY2 unit on a Pyramid 9815 (OSx 4.4c) and are perfectly happy. Since we got it up and running, there have not been any problems. It is plugged into the back of the 9 track unit and runs nightly. There were some initial problems getting it up and running last summer. I cannot provide all the details because I was out of town at the time and the person responsible for the installation no longer works here. I believe that the primary problem was that Cybernetics had just changed the microcode in the unit and it was not quite right when we first got it. Then after an exchange, there were some interfacing problems, but the local Pyramid maintenance person gave us a hand in getting it going. Since then we have had absolutely no problems with it or the IOP. Ours is a 2.2GB unit, and it was priced at 5,500 last June (which may or may not have included an educational discount). My system manager did a lot of news posting and telephoning, and this was the only product that got uniform positive remarks for use with a Pyramid system. Since then the product has been "improved", since 8mm technology now allows higher densities and speeds. Mark -- Mark Benard Department of Computer Science INTERNET & BITNET: mb@rex.cs.tulane.edu Tulane University USENET: rex!mb New Orleans, LA 70118