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From: TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: 15 MB tape
Message-ID: <90278.075634TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 90 11:56:34 GMT
Organization: Youngstown State University VM system (YSUB)
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Nope, that's not a misprint.  We just received a new tower 32/700
with UNIX SYS V 1.03 and the now standard 150MB tape drive.  I
ordered Informix which has since come in on a 15MB tape.  Supposedly
the tape is to be installed with CPIO commands, but even using
dd with the byte swap option could not make any sense of this
strange media.  Anyone out there have any idea if this tape can
be read at all with our existing hardware and drivers?  (Informix
seems reluctant to send me a 60 or 150MB tape with the product -
after all we only spent over $5000 on the product and $20 for the
correct tape density would probably push the price up :-) :-)  )

Any help (positive or negative) would be appreciated.  BTW, are there
some machines that now about the 3M DC615A cart's - I'd never seen
this item listed on any vendor's 3M tape list before.


Lou Anschuetz aka temngt23@ysu.edu or temngt23@ysub.bitnet