From: cummings@hammer.Prime.COM (Kevin Cummings) Subject: Re: Archive Tape Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:56:47 GMT
In article <1992Aug18.025014.9758@engage.pko.dec.com>, sharpe@adodem.enet.dec.com writes:
>
> I have an Archive (I think that is it) 120 MB tape backup on my machine. It
> uses 3M DC2120 tapes.
>
> What format are these? QIC-02?
My guess is that these are QIC-40 or QIC-80 tapes. CMS gets 120MB of
compressed data on its QIC-40 DC2120 tapes, but only 60MB of uncompressed
data. They get up to 250MB of compressed data on their QIC-80 DC2120 tapes
(using their 250MB backup tape drive), but only 120MB of uncompressed data.
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