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Subject: Re: Re : [386BSD] What tape drive should I use?
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From: levinson@vax.sonoma.edu
Date: 25 Nov 92 15:58:49 -0800
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In article <gf4upL800k00FhQbQp@transarc.com>, Guy_Dawson@transarc.com writes:
> I'm using a Sankyo 525s SCSI tape on an Adaptec 1542B runing BSDi/386.
> 
> I works just fine. It reads/writes QIC-150 and bigger tapes up to
> QIC-525. I suspect it will also read QIC-60 as well but I've never seen
> one to try.
> 
> The magic words are `QIC-xxx` where xxx is the storage capacity of the tape.
> 
> Typical values are QIC-150, QIC-250 and QIC-525.
> 
> I'm not sure about Us prices ( I'm a Brit ) but it should be under $1000...
> 
> Guy
> By me, for me,
-- 
I thought that the QIC-XXX means the tape format compatibility.  My drive is a
QIC-40 compatible drive, it has 60MB hard storage and 120MB compresed.
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