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- From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
- Subject: Re: Will Dell load off a Wangdat DAT?
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:04:26 GMT
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- In article <C00z28.Fv2@hsi.com> hogue@hsi.com (Jim Hogue) writes:
- >
- >This brings up a question. I am looking at purchasing Dells SV.4
- >(based on Eric Raymonds buyers guide). I need to add a tape drive (I
- >need one anyways for backup!) and I am going to add some more disk. I
- >was planning on going the SCSI route. Does anyone have a good list of
- >the SCSI tape drives that will read the Dell distribution? The Unix
- >support people at Dell suggested the Wangtec 325/525 QIC drive. They
- >also sell the cheaper Colorado Jumbo 250, but aren't sure it works
- >under unix. What have others used successfully?
-
- The Archive VP150S (Viper 150MB) will read the tapes successfully, and will
- do 250MB as well with the appropriate tapes. It is cheap these days, SCSI,
- and it's a workhorse. Not a bad choice if you don't want to get into DAT.
- I would do that rather than the Colorado anything (I have had horrible
- problems with CMS products before).
-
- The HP DAT drives are supposed to work as well. They >do< work for backup
- and restore (and are damn nice and fast) but I haven't tried loading from
- one. I presume that it would work, as the rest does. These are reasonably
- inexpensive too. I have one of the compressing units (HP35480) which works
- great for backups and the like. I like it a lot.
-
- A friend has a non-compressing Archive Python (DAT) which he claims also
- works.
-
- Someone on the net says the WangDAT does NOT work.
-
- In fact, my configuration now consists of:
-
- 1) Two Adaptec 1542B boards (yep - - two SCSI channels)
- 2) 4 disks split across the 2 boards
- 3) An Archive 2150S and a HP DAT drive
- 4) WD Ethernet (Elite 16)
- 5) Dual floppies
- 6) Joe Blow's noname 486/33 motherboard with 16MB RAM
-
- None of it is DELL hardware. All of it works, and quite well (and fast)
- at that. The second SCSI adapter makes a quantum difference in disk
- throughput and overall responsiveness under load.
-
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- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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