Xref: utzoo comp.sys.dec:3738 comp.periphs:3065 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tiamat!mjbtn!root From: root@mjbtn.JOBSOFT.COM (Mark J. Bailey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.periphs Subject: Re: Any one seen or heard of DEC's 4mm DAT drive? Keywords: DEC, DAT, 4mm, tape Message-ID: <649@mjbtn.JOBSOFT.COM> Date: 9 Aug 90 01:50:16 GMT References: Followup-To: comp.sys.dec Distribution: comp Organization: JobSoft Design & Development Co, Murfreesboro, TN Lines: 25 lgl@cac.washington.edu (Laurence Lundblade) writes: >There's a rumor, according to Digital Review, that DEC 4mm tape >drives don't work very well, if at all, and that DEC is giving VAX >4000 customers 8mm drives instead of 4mm drives. We've had one on order >from DEC for a while now and are wondering when and what we might get. >Thanks for your comments. >Laurence Lundblade 206-543-5617 > lgl@cac.washington.edu > Networks and Distributed Computing, U of Washington, Seattle This is third hand, but one local group was *supposed* to have theirs back in May, and were recently promised delivery of the DEC 4mm by the middle of August. Well, similar to your finding, I have heard that it may now be *NOVEMBER*!!! I heard one user comment that come the middle of the month, something (4 or 8mm) had best better be on a truck headed their way! :-) They also had a bad experience with Inbound SCSI harddisk drives not talking DEC SCSI (this was on a DecStation 3100) and I think another 3rd party 4mm SCSI drive as well. That is about all I have heard. Mark.