Dumping to an exabyte tape drive

[Walter Rowe]

>>>>> On 4 Sep 90 17:02:28 GMT, rsb1 at cbnewsk.att.com (richard.s.brown) said:

|> We use 120 min tapes. We bought our drives from Perfect Byte,
|> Inc.	in Omaha, Nebraska. The documentation we received was
|> remarkably good (and concise!) Here are the suggested values for
|> 'dump':

|> 		Blocking factor:	126
|> 		Density:		54000 (bpi!!!)
|> 		Length:			6000 (ft.)

|> 	I hope this helps!

|> 				Rich Brown
|> 				AT&T Network Systems
|> 				rsb at vogon.att.com

Exactly the same here, including the vendor!

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