IDE Tape Drives

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Scott said:
Are there IDE tape drives that use the DDS-120 tape?
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No. The only IDE tape drives that are readily available are Travans,
Onstream (company is dead I believe) and Exabyte VXA, which is 8mm. Of
those, the Exabyte is the only one that's worth a damn. And few SCSI tape
drives will take a "DDS-120" tape--it's DDS-1, DDS-2, DDS-3, DDS-4, or
DDS-5. And the purpose made tapes work poorly enough, don't even _think_
about using an audio tape.
 
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No. The only IDE tape drives that are readily available are Travans,
Onstream (company is dead I believe) and Exabyte VXA, which is 8mm. Of
those, the Exabyte is the only one that's worth a damn. And few SCSI tape
drives will take a "DDS-120" tape--it's DDS-1, DDS-2, DDS-3, DDS-4, or
DDS-5. And the purpose made tapes work poorly enough, don't even _think_
about using an audio tape.
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DDS-120 = DDS2. If I remember, the capacity was only about 4G
uncompressed? DDS3 (125M tapes) are 12G. DDS4 (150M tapes?) are about
20G. There is also a DAT72, which is basically DDS5 (36M uncompressed.)
DDS1 used 60M or 90M tapes.
 
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