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- From: rjt@softin.lonestar.org (Richard Threlkeld)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Colorado Systems - Conversation
- Message-ID: <9VHPwB1w165w@softin.lonestar.org>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 11:20:07 CST
- References: <9212241851.47@rmkhome.UUCP>
- Organization: Software Innovation, Arlington, Tx
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- rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
-
- > The problem that I have seen, with systems running DOS, is that the user
- > backs up his system to a floppy controlled tape. One day, perhaps months
- > later, he decides to reload from the tape, and the tapedrive chokes and
- > returns a "can't read tape error". One guy I know, who does freelance
- > CAD work, solves the problem by doing redundant backups to 2 tapes. Sometimes
- > one tape will work and sometimes it is the other.
- >
- > Floppy tapes are not reliable.
- >
- > --
- >
- > Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP merk!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
-
- I have the CMS Jumbo 250 with the hardware controller card. This is available
- with hardware compression or without. Without, it is cheap. Either of them
- will double the transfer rate over that with the floppy controller and
- may solve your reported reliability problems. I have been using this
- structure for about 18 months with *no* problems. I have made hundreds of
- backups (I have a 1G drive partitioned into 6 logical DOS drives and two
- COH partitions). I have restored many times (I had a flaky drive prior to
- this one) and used it for the transfer and reallocate for the new drive.
-
- I get about 100Mb in 14 mins with compression, BTW.
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