[HECnet] Tape drive explosion

[Clem Cole]

Fair enough. We had DLT in our lab in MRO, but I  personally  tried to stay away from it as I  preferred  8mm and 4mm [i.e. my Alphas that I used had them and a TS08 -- although IT used Legato to DLT behind the scene.

In those days, DAT and Exabyte tapes were more portable until DEC spun the DLT group out to quantum.   But for a very long time 4mm and 8mm were a lot cheaper/meg.    I still have a couple of working 9-track, 8mm and 4mm drives, but nothing from DLT.

By the time I grew out of using tape, I switched to DVD and finally just enough RAID/JBOD with replication to not bother with tape except for readonly.


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> wrote:
The Wikipedia page specifically lists items as read/write and read/only.   TK70 appears to be the highest read-only for a TK50.

Ian

On 2013-01-24, at 2:39 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> wrote:
Can anyone confirm or deny this?   I have some newer generation DLT drives, but none of them admit to being backwards compatible that far.

IIRC you could >>read<< them, just not write them.
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