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From: cerda@ut-ngp.UUCP (Michael Cerda)
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Subject: Anyone use a 6250 tape drive on a Sun?
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 22:35:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 22:35:27 1985
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We will soon have a network of Sun 2/50's attached to a Sun 170 acting
as a file server. There will be two 380 MByte Fujitsu Eagle disk drives
on the Sun 170. Nothing else is on the ethernet. We want to use a 1/2 inch
tape drive to do backups. Do people really use the 1600 bpi tape drive to
backup the Eagle disk drives. Doesn't this take forever?

Sun sells only a 1/2 inch, 9 track, 1600 bpi tape drive.  What do people
in the real world use? Does anyone have a 6250 bpi tape drive attached to
a Sun?

		Michael Cerda
		University of Texas at Austin
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