Exabyte 2.2 Gb Streamer for ISC

[Karl Denninger]

In article <3417 at rsiatl.UUCP> pda at rsiatl.UUCP (Paul D. Anderson) writes:
>I have been looking into getting an Exabyte 2.2 Gig streamer for
>my system and one other.  (Disk drives are getting cheap and
>it's getting tough to back them up on 60Mb DC600A cartridges!)
>
>I'm running ISC 2.2 on a 16 bit bus with 20 Mhz/386/8 Mb main
>memory.  Disk controller is Adaptec 1542 talking to a Newbury
>4380S (300 meg scsi) and a Maxtor 8760S (650 meg scsi).  That's
>basic hardware config.
>
>Has anyone been using an Exabyte (or related drive)?  How fast is
>it?  Does it require special utilities or will tar or cpio
>drive it with No Problem through a specific device (and what device
>is that?)  HELP!

Well, if you build for SCSI tape on the 1542, it works great.  I backup
about 6 systems every night to it over Ethernet.  Peak speeds reach
10MB/minute.

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