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[Koyote]

Nearly any half height 5.25 inch or 3.5 inch mounting SCSI NARROW DDS
drive will work fine. you won't have to use the windows drivers on a sun
box, but the drivers are generally (in a real SCSI device) only for the
host OS, and have little or nothing to do with the SCSI hardware.

Generally, any SCSI HP DDS drive will work with sun with no effort at
all. 

(YMMV, this is just my experience with a few dozen tapes drives :) )

-C

Arthur Wouk <awouk at ra.nilenet.com> writes:

> :Subject: Re: [rescue] anyone with a 4mm dat of reasonable capacity to sell
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> 
> but which on ebay will fit in a 411 box? and will accept solaris
> drivers. when i checked ebay i found that those i checked were set up
> for windows.
> 
> :From: Jeffrey Nonken <jeff_work at nonken.net>
> :
> :On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:23:13 -0700 (MST), Arthur Wouk <awouk at ra.nilenet.com>
> :wrote:
> :
> :> my 4mm dat tape drive had a mechanical failure (won't take in new
> :> tape, mangled the one it ejected - didn't release the tape). so i am
> :> looking for a replacement. the old one sits in a 411 box 50pin scsi.
> :> it is a 2/4gig drive.
> :>
> :> anyone with an extra email me. if the email bounces, don't worry - my
> :> procmail filters log all bounces, and when i fix a path through them,
> :> i will let you know.
> :
> :A quick search for DDS-1 drives on eBay didn't show anything, but DDS-2 and
> :DDS-3 are backwards-compatible.
> :
> :http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&query=DDS-
> :3
> :
> :http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&query=DDS-
> :2
> :
> :eBay is your friend. :)
> :
> :I believe that DDS-4 is only compatible as far back as DDS-2, so it won't let
> :you re-use your old tapes. Just for the record, DDS-3 is a more reliable
> :format than DDS-2, in addition to being a 6x increment in capacity. So I
> :recommend you just go straight to DDS-3 if you can.
> :
> :If you aren't familiar with tape lengths, they are:
> :60: DDS-1, capacity: 1.2g
> :90: DDS-1, capacity: 2g
> :120: DDS-2, capacity: 4g
> :125: DDS-3, capacity: 12g
> :I don't know what length DDS-4 is and I'm too lazy to look. :) Capacity is
> :20g.
> :
> :Those are uncompressed capacities. Double those figures for compressed
> :capacities, if it makes you feel good and you believe that you can actually
> :achieve 2:1 compression on anything but highly-repetitive data. My experience
> :(on complete drive backups) has been about 1.5:1, on a good day with a
> :running
> :start and a tail-wind.
> :
> :My own experience is that Sony drives are better than HP, but YMMV. I presume
> :either will work on Sun, but I've never tried, so I can't answer to that. The
> :DDS-3 Sony heads have a 20% duty cycle, the HP version only has a 12% duty
> :cycle. I don't know anything about Seagate drives.
> :
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