Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!kth.se!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: A couple of questions about HP-UX DAT drive usage Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 17:36:13 GMT References: <4135@auspex.auspex.com> Sender: news@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK) Lines: 13 In-reply-to: guy@auspex.auspex.com's message of 3 Oct 90 01:42:30 GMT Some more questions about HP's DAT tape (or should we say DDS?): Before we actually got our 822 with DDS tape drive, we heard stories about how fast the DDS tape was supposed to be, especially when searching for a file. Now when I have used it somewhat, I haven't noticed that it would be much faster than, say, a 7980 open-reel tape drive. In what way is a DDS tape supposed to be used to be "fast"? Should files be stored as individual tape files with EOF marks between? -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland