Help on tape drive interoperability/reliability

[Larry Snyder]

rajs at hpindda.cup.hp.com (Rajeev Seth) writes:

>I was going to get an Everex 60MB tape backup for my Interactive Unix 2.2
>running on a 80386 PC, with these characterstics:
>	writes QIC-24 format on DC600 tapes on an OEMd
>	Wangtek 5099 drive.
>My question is that if tar has been used
>to write the tapes is it sufficient to take the tape across to the other
>machines/unixes such as 386/SCO Unix, Sun/SunOS, Esix, etc., put it in
>another QIC-24 reading tape drive

It should work - but these days 150 meg tapes are the commonplace - not
60 meg tapes - it would be a shame to go the 60 meg route unless your 
other hardware only had 60 meg tape units and you didn't plan on adding
large drives..  Another approach that I would suggest would be to network
all the boxes and add one tape drive..

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