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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: mmdf-II on the PC/RT and cartridge tape compatibility
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Date: 11 Jan 89 20:03:54 GMT
References: <4203@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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in article <4203@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>, ehrlich@shire.cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) says:
> Just a note of warning.  IBM has started selling a new model streaming tape
> drive that will read QIC-24 tapes but writes tapes at a density that Suns,
> and any other catridge drive I have access to, won't read.  I think it is
> named the 6157 Model 2.  Another good move on IBM's part.

The 6157 Model 2 can get about three times the amount of data on a
cartridge tape as opposed to the 6157 model 1. That is very useful to
those of use with 120 MB disk partitions to do an unattended level 0
backup at 4am so that we don't have to disturb everyone else's work.
The new drive also reads and writes two to three times faster than the
previous model. As the 6157-002 uses the same controller card as the
6157, in those rare instances that we need to write a low density tape,
we just plug a 6157 into the back of our machine. The 6157-002 was a
good move and not a bad move.

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