Re: Looking for a tape drive

[hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Mike Hackett)]

In article <fmlinC9r1KI.BIr@netcom.com> fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
>Mike:
>
>I picked up mine for about $310.  It's a Wangtek 2150.  Supports 150mb
>tapes, & 250 extended length tapes.  The guy I got it from might have
>a couple of more, but I can't find his e-mail anymore.  It's new.

Are you able to take full advantage of those tapes (ie. use them for
150 and 250 Mb respectively)?  My impression, from reading the Computer
Shopper article that these capacities were the maximums, attainable only
if compression was used.  Is the compression being done automatically by
the drive, or does GSTape handle it?  (Or is it not being done?)  Or is
this only the case with the mini-cartridges?  Or am I totally wrong? :-)


Mike