Exabyte 2.2 Gb Streamer for ISC

[Pim Zandbergen]

karl at naitc.uucp (Karl Denninger) writes:

>In article <3417 at rsiatl.UUCP> pda at rsiatl.UUCP (Paul D. Anderson) writes:

>>Has anyone been using an Exabyte (or related drive)?  How fast is
>>it?  Does it require special utilities or will tar or cpio
>>drive it with No Problem through a specific device (and what device
>>is that?)  HELP!

>Well, if you build for SCSI tape on the 1542, it works great.  I backup
>about 6 systems every night to it over Ethernet.  Peak speeds reach
>10MB/minute.

I've got two related questions:

1) How do 8mm video tape streamers compare to DAT streamers
   (like Wangtek's) in regard of their price, reliability,
   and tape price. Which system will become "standard" ?

2) We will still need to use our Archive VIPER SCSI tape unit.
   This will mean having two tape units on the 1542.
   tape(7) says:
	 Bits 4-7 (the high order nibble of the minor number)
	 indicate the drive number.
   This means it should be possible to mknod say /dev/tape2,
   but I will be very interested to hear if anyone actually
   tried this.

Thanks in advance.

PS. The original article(s) were posted with 'Distribution: na'
    so don't try to find them if you don't live in North America.
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