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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Cartridge tape drives compatible with sun 60M tapes?
Keywords: sun scsi cartridge tapes isc
Message-ID: <1990Mar19.021503.22979@virtech.uucp>
Date: 19 Mar 90 02:15:03 GMT
References: <11@pulsar.mv.COM>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <11@pulsar.mv.COM> gmd@pulsar.mv.COM (George MacDonald) writes:

>I am looking for a cartridge tape backup system for my ISC 386 box
>which will read and write 60Mbyte cartridge tapes that are compatible
>with sun 60M tapes. I would prefer a SCSI soln, but have had no luck in
>finding one so I'll settle for whatever works.

Just about every 60MB cartridge tape available for any 386 unix system is
compatable with the sun drive if you use the /dev/rst8 device on the sun
system.  I have transferred zillions of files to and from sun machines from
several different 386 boxes.

What you need is QIC-24 format.  This is the standard 60MB format.



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