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From: mel@fleet.UUCP (mel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: DAT tape backup
Keywords: tape backup
Message-ID: <5@fleet.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 90 06:56:50 GMT
References: <3@fleet.UUCP> <8222@scorn.sco.COM>
Reply-To: mel@fleet.UUCP ()
Organization: Fleet Parts & Equipment
Lines: 25

In article <8222@scorn.sco.COM> rogerk@sco.COM (Roger Knopf 5502) writes:
>
>In article <3@fleet.UUCP> mel@fleet.UUCP (mel) writes:
>>Is SCO ever going to give us direct (non third party) support of huge tape
>>backup devices like DATs and 8 mm Exebyte drives which can store
>>1.3 to 4 gigabytes per tape??????
>
>Yes. Our just-announced SCO Unix 3.2 v2 has support for 3 different
>DAT drives and the Exabyte. I believe that the DAT drives are
>from Archive, Mountain and Tecmar. We also support CD-ROM in
>this release and have completely reworked the disk driver to
>speed it up (we are no longer recommending 3:1 interleaving
>with this release).

Two things...

1)  Will this DAT support also be added to Xenix as well?

2)  Does Xenix 2.3.3GT also recommend a 3:1 interleave?
    If so then what happens when a disk is preformatted by a factory
    installer for 1:1 interleave (as on my HP Vectra 486's 330 meg drive)?

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