At 1:41 PM -0600 3/1/01, Ben Liberman wrote:
1. make sure VXA drive has the latest firmware
2. make sure VXA drive has hardware compression turned on
3. make sure VXA drive favors capacity over speed
There are 2 settings, when configuring the VXA drive, that that affect tape
capacity...
Title: Re: Encryption protection
You're kidding, aren't you...? Better to think about moving
away
from the canal and up to some high ground...or to a state that
isn't
sliding into the ocean so soon...
Seriously, physical security should always be your first
priority.
Suppose someone decides
Not really. AIT and DAT and I assume M2 spin the heads and slow down the
tape but the relative speeds are in the same neighborhood. (I assume
it's easier to spin the heads faster than move the tape faster which is
why DLT appears to be falling behind in the race.) Anyway, you still
need to keep
...in that case, go with Sony's AIT-2. The company is certainly in no danger
and they also have a road map to higher capacity and performance.
Both VXA and AIT use evaporated metal media rather than particulate
media making head life and drive reliability a plus.
Avoid cold/condensing
Title: Re: VXA vexations
re: 206 errors on Mac
Ecrix have revised the drive firmware to V2848
11/11/00in order to address some of these
problems.
Timing problems may vary from one system to another,
even with the same cable/adapter/terminator/drive
due to differences in the system clock and bus
Dantz has being supporting Retrospect since the days when backups were
done to stacks of diskettes (and NOT 2HD either). The issue of compression
efficiency has been agonized over almost as much as Peace in the Middle East.
A number of years ago the tape industry finally arrived at a gentleman's
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Douglas K Wyman
Houston TX
Has anybody heard of a Firewire DAT drive. IOW, a DAT that could be used from a Mac
G4 Cube?
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Ken G i l l e t t
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all paying for the support but have
to make the right hardware purchases to benefit from their efforts.
The bottom line is that purchasing the cheapest tape solution is
almost always a false economy.
Regards,
Douglas K Wyman
Houston TX
