Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!nosc!humu!pegasus!richard
From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Using DC6250's in an archive 2150S/E
Keywords: archive tape backup scsi qic02
Message-ID: <1990Aug4.002127.4371@pegasus.com>
Date: 4 Aug 90 00:21:27 GMT
References: <1990Jul31.013053.14163@nstar.uucp> <1700@mic.UUCP> <1990Aug02.112846.10348@nstar.uucp>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
Lines: 16

>>In general, the 250 meg tapes look and act just like the 150's.  They are
>>well worth the $4.00 additional cost (that runs out at $0.04 per meg, one
>>of the best dollar-to-meg ratios I have ever seen).
>
>I was told that the ceramic heads on the 2150S will support the
>250 megabytes tapes where as the metal heads won't.
>

This doesn't make much sense, to me anyway.  If the 250meg tapes are
just longer then how could the head design have anything to do with
it?  (Disregarding head-life issues.)



-- 
Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com