Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!kwongj
From: kwongj@caldwr.caldwr.gov (James Kwong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: High capacity tape drives
Message-ID: <352@caldwr.caldwr.gov>
Date: 27 Apr 88 17:46:45 GMT
Organization: California Department of Water Resources
Lines: 33
Keywords: high capacity tape drives


Recently, several companies offer high capacity cartridge tape drives 
for the Apollo 3000s and 4000s. 

These tape drives seem to be ideal for doing backups. Some of them claim up 
to 2 gigabytes of data can be stored on a single tape. 

They interface thru the ATbus and the some use the exisiting commands -
rbak/wbak/rwmt/tar.

I found three companies that makes these. If you have any information, opinion,
gripes, praises, etc. about these machines,  I would like to hear them since 
we are looking into getting one.

MegaTape Corporations              MT-500              MT-750       
   capacity, unformatted            500 Megabytes       750 Megabytes
   Tape:                            MDC-500             MDC-750
                     
Workstation Solutions, Inc         ExaTape
    capacity                        up to 2.3 gigabytes
    Tape:                           8mm

Danford Corporation                HCB-3000 (Preliminary)
     capacity                        up to 2 gigabytes 
     Tape:                           8mm
                                 
James Kwong  Calif. Depart. of H2O Resources, Sacramento, CA 95802
caldwr!kwongj@ucdavis.edu(Internet) ...!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!kwongj (UUCP)
The opinions expressed above are mine, not those of the State of California or the California Department of Water Resources.
-- 
James Kwong  Calif. Depart. of H2O Resources, Sacramento, CA 95802
caldwr!kwongj@ucdavis.edu(Internet) ...!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!kwongj (UUCP)
The opinions expressed above are mine, not those of the State of California or the California Department of Water Resources.