Re: Looking for a tape drive

[schaf@meadow.muc.de (Soenke Behrens)]

Mike Hackett (hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca) wrote:
: In article <fmlinC9r1KI.BIr@netcom.com> fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes:
: >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? :-)

What you have here are DC6150 and DC6250 cartridges, respectively. Those
are quarter-inch tapes. The capacities 150 (actually 155MB) and 250MB
are w/o data compression. Data compression would add to that.

Soenke
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