sid@ewok.rtech.COM (Sid Shapiro) (08/05/89)
Hi there folks, Any of you sequent owners out there have an 8mm video tape drive hooked to your system? I'm interested in hearing everything about it if you do. Who you got it from? How much did it cost? What is the interface? How well/poorly does it work? Thanks for any and all information. -- Sid Shapiro -- Relational Technology, Inc sid@rtech.com (415)748-3470
battan@qtc.UUCP (Jim Battan) (08/11/89)
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? :-) -- Jim Battan uunet!sequent!qtc!battan +1 503 626 3081 Quantitative Technology Corportation (QTC) 8700 SW Creekside Place, Suite D Beaverton, OR 97005
royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (keenan royle) (08/21/89)
>In article <3297@rtech.rtech.com> sid@rtech.COM (Sid Shapiro) writes: >>I'm interested in hearing everything about 8mm tape drives. > at the company I worked far last we where looking at a Exabyte drive for the the symetry we were going to by. Anyway since the symetry does not have SCSI ports this was neither cheap or simple. it requires a 1/2" tape adapter and the Exabyte would have its own power suppliy. The cost amounted to close to $20K. all this is from memory, so please excuse statements that don't match reality