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From: kai@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Kuck And Associates)
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Subject: Re: Sequent Exabyte comments wanted
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Date: 17 Jul 90 23:32:39 GMT
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>I'm waiting to hear from one of their engineer's about the "large
>file system problem."
>Sequent's 8mm drive is made by a company called Megatape.
>
>Michael D. Sofka                   INTERNET:  mike@pubserv.com

We have the Megatape GT/88-1, which Alliant also OEM's.  It has a Pertec
interface which lets it imitate a 1/2" reel tape drive, which is pleasantly
already supported by just about everyone.  I've been using it (currently
connected to our Alliant) for all of our backups (including one Sequent B8 and
one S81) since last October with no problems in either backups or restores.  I
am planning on moving our 8mm drive to one of our Sequent machines very soon,
so should be able to verify this myself.

Our largest single file system is on one entire Eagle disk drive (355 Mb).
Perhaps dumping those new 1 Gb drives (Fujitsu M2382K) cause problems with some
block counters in /etc/dump when the entire thing is dumped to one tape.

Patrick Wolfe   (pat@kai.com, kailand!pat)
System Programmer/Operations Manager, Kuck & Associates
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