On Friday, November 16, 1990 at 12:33:30 PM UTC-8, Jay Ts wrote:

In article <57...@holston.UUCP>, bar...@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) writes:

In article <3...@metran.UUCP> j...@metran.UUCP (Jay Ts) writes:

In article <16...@chinacat.Unicom.COM>, ch...@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:

In article <8...@zeusa.UUCP> hen...@zeusa.UUCP (Hendrik Vermooten) writes:

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In my experience for Xenix and UNIX/386, the DC600 tape drives are much >faster than the QIC drives, and this is a very important factor.

Excuse me. DC600's are tapes made by 3-M not the drives. QIC-24 drives
use the DC-600 tapes. Let's get these straight before we make backup recommendations.

Oops, sorry.
That was a confused typo; I was trying to compare QIC-24 drives to
the smaller drives that (I guess) must be commonly sold for MS-DOS systems. (OK, so what are *they* called?) My point was that spending more money on
a faster tape drive is more than worth it if it means that it will actually be used!
I have been trying to set myself straight on this matter, but have mostly been getting more confused: can someone either email or post a *definitive* listing of
1) The types of tape drives available and/or in use (I'm looking
for standardized names, not manufacturers' model names), and
2) The tapes that each use, by both

a) dimensions (there doesn't seem to be a standard naming
system, but I've got a ruler!)
b) Manufacturers' product names
I am not an expert on tape drives, but I want to become one. Please send me info on the drive(s) you're sure of. Also tell me if you want to be mailed
a summary. And if no one else posts comprehensive info, I'll do that too.
Jay Ts
uunet!pdn!tscs!metran!jay

That is good.

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