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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: A2091,A3000 SCSI Controllers w/ DAT's
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Date: 3 Jan 91 20:29:04 GMT
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In <1983@ria.ccs.uwo.ca>, terry@csd.uwo.ca (Terry Cudney) writes:
>lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>> I am having great fun with a DAT drive. I have it backing up at
>>anout 7.7 megabytes/minute, and I can use it as a storage medium for individual
>>files, with an average access time of 20 seconds to any file on the tape, if I
>>know where it is.  Not bad for a tape that will store 1.3 GBytes.
>>
>>-larry
>
>Larry, (or anyone else using DAT's)
>
>    Would you care to give more details on this (or other) DAT drive?
>(eg. Brand, model, cost, availability, compatibility with A3000/A2091, etc)?

The drive is an Archive Python, cost unknown, availability unknown, and works
just fine with my own backup/restore programs on an A3000. No reason why it
should not work on a 2091, 2090, or Microbotics HardFrame, and probably on
other setups as well.

-larry

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