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From: roe@sobeco.com (r.peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Experience with DAT drives?
Message-ID: <1990Mar11.160020.27837@sobeco.com>
Date: 11 Mar 90 16:00:20 GMT
References: <1273@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
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From article <1273@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>, by k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger):
> Dear Netlanders,
> 
> has anybody tried to use a HP/Sony DAT Drive or a Wangtek drive
> on a MIPS System?
> We are thinking about buying such things instead of Exabyte.
> 

I've used the Wangtek drive on an M-120 with no problems at all.  Just make
sure to set the jumpers on the DAT for the same disconnect size as a
builtin 150MB Archive drive.

However, both the transfer rate and storage capacity are about half the
exabyte.
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