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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Rico Pajarola <rp@servium.ch>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 18:45:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2OwKGCe+7AHZj4j3Tn5RmP0MzPMZQnrw7_Eb5M-UmEE_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACwAiQ=ujdOwXAxKSuD9Tg5PAr2Hj2A0+LNRh42mAe-2VBLmVQ@mail.gmail.com>

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I have two and they have found them to be spotting years later.  I have
them in an FreeBSD box with SCSI.

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 5:59 PM Rico Pajarola <rp@servium.ch> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 2:53 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
>> Good luck with that.  I had a 4/470 that had an exabyte, wheeled it out of
>> building 5 at Sun and into building 9 at SGI and the tapes wouldn't read
>> back.
>>
> We called them buffered dev-nulls.
>
> TBH, that's what we called most tapes except for DLTs.
>
>
>
>> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 05:39:30PM -0500, Richard Salz wrote:
>> > Historically important he says. The guy had creds.
>> > https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1198706617967095809?s=19
>>
>> --
>> ---
>> Larry McVoy                  lm at mcvoy.com
>> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
>>
> --
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-24 23:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-24 22:39 Richard Salz
2019-11-24 22:50 ` Jim Capp
2019-11-24 22:52 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-24 22:58   ` Rico Pajarola
2019-11-24 23:45     ` Clem Cole [this message]
2019-11-25  1:41   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25  1:42     ` George Michaelson
2019-11-25  3:24       ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-25 17:07         ` Al Kossow
2019-11-25 17:40           ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-25 17:45             ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-25 17:49               ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-25 18:34               ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-25 21:08                 ` John P. Linderman
2019-11-25 21:11                   ` ron
2019-11-25 21:30                     ` John P. Linderman
2019-11-25 21:38               ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 18:29           ` Warner Losh
2019-11-25  3:29       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25  3:34         ` [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte [ really bulk erasing ] Jon Steinhart
2019-11-25  3:59           ` William Pechter
2019-11-25 15:25             ` Clem Cole
2019-11-25 17:13               ` Al Kossow
2019-11-25  4:53           ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25  3:36         ` [TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte Larry McVoy
2019-11-25 22:34           ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-26  1:38             ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-11-25 22:46           ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-25 22:57           ` Henry Bent
2019-11-27 19:31   ` John Foust
2019-11-27 20:56     ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-27 21:25       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-25 18:12 Norman Wilson

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