johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) (07/18/90)
I would like to buy a 1/4" tape drive that reads and writes 120 or 150 MB
tapes and really works on my Intel 302 running ISC Unix. Currently I have
an Archive VP150 which has never worked, despite a fair amount of effort
both on my part and some of Archive's support people, and a complete
equipment swap. (Hardware manuals and source to the driver didn't help
much either, the drive does things that it looks like should never happen.)
It is flaky with the driver that Archive sends out, and doesn't work at all
with the one that comes with ISC 2.2.
Anyway, I'm tired of waiting for their support people to call back, and
solicit other people's experience. Exchanging QIC tapes is important, I'm
not really in the market for a DAT or other more modern drive.
Desiderata:
- reliability running under Unix
- read and write 150 MB or at least 120 MB tapes.
- internal preferred to external, I have room and plenty of power
TIA,
--
John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {ima|lotus|spdcc}!esegue!johnl
Marlon Brando and Doris Day were born on the same day.gary@mic.UUCP (Gary Lewin) (07/19/90)
In article <1990Jul17.221141.5971@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: >I would like to buy a 1/4" tape drive that reads and writes 120 or 150 MB >tapes and really works on my Intel 302 running ISC Unix. I have had very good experience with the Wangtek 150 meg tape units. If possible, go with the SCSI version. Both versions will work equally well with 150 or the newer 250 (Scotch No. DC 6250) meg tapes. Gary Lewin gary@mic.lonestar.org
robert@towers.UUCP (Robert Hoquim) (07/22/90)
gary@mic.UUCP (Gary Lewin) writes: >In article <1990Jul17.221141.5971@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes: >>I would like to buy a 1/4" tape drive that reads and writes 120 or 150 MB >>tapes and really works on my Intel 302 running ISC Unix. >I have had very good experience with the Wangtek 150 meg tape units. If >possible, go with the SCSI version. Both versions will work equally well >with 150 or the newer 250 (Scotch No. DC 6250) meg tapes. I have a SCSI Archive 2150 that also works quite well with ISC, I can use DC600 tapes for 125 meg or DC6150 (DC600xtd) tapes for 150 meg. Now are you saying that with the SCSI drivers that we use for ISC the new 6250 tapes will give us 250 megs with no other changes? If I had any complaint it would be the inability of any SCSI tape drive to do multiple tape backups. (ie. file systems larger than 150 megs in a single CPIO pass without breaking things down into subdirectories on that file system.) So I should ask this question: Has anyone figured a way with a SCSI tape drive (Archive or Wangtek) to do multiple tape backups with CPIO? Say a file system that is 300 megs that would take 2 tapes with cpio asking for another tape like it did with the older Non-SCSI Wangtek tape drives (60 megs). There just doesn't seem to be any report from the driver to CPIO that the end of the medium has been reached and just hangs. Thanks for any light you folks can shed on these questions. -- Robert Hoquim Small Systems Specialists (317)-255-6807 8500 N. Meridian ..!nstar!towers!robert Indianapolis, IN. 46260