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From: brodie@fps.mcw.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DEC 4mm DAT tape drive - first impressions (long)
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.103303.3666@fps.mcw.edu>
Date: 7 Dec 90 15:33:03 GMT
References: <10947@sunquest.UUCP>
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Organization: Medical College of Wisconsin,  Milwaukee, WI
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In article <10947@sunquest.UUCP>, terry@venus.sunquest.com (Terry R. Friedrichsen) writes:
> 
> Picked my favorite disk (the one with MY files on it :-) and fired up a plain,
> unadorned tar(1) command.  RDAT took right off, slapping bits on the tape at
> a rate of about 200K bytes per second.  About 45 minutes later, my 3/4 full
> RZ56 was backed up.  Rewind was pretty fast (20 seconds?  maybe 30?).
> 
> Hit the eject button, waited 15 seconds for the tape to spit back out, and
> slid over the write-protect tab.  First test complete; time to post a message
> to the world!

yeah, but maybe ultrix 4.1 is only required to RESTORE the data..  :-)

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