> On Jan 25, 2018, at 4:18 PM, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote: > > Exabytes? > I know there was some people who thought they couldn't do variable size > reocrds, but that is actually incorrect. They can. It might be wasting space > on the underlying tape or something, I don't know. But I certainly had > Exabytes connected to VAXen and PDP-11s, and used the normal DEC tools to > play around, and Exabytes behaves just like any other tape drive, in all > aspects. > > Johnny
Back when the Alpha in question was an AlphaStation 200 4/233, it had an Exabyte EXB-10 tape library hooked to it with at the time “massive” 5GB tapes. :-) At that time my max disk size was 2GB, and I could still buy new Exabyte tapes. I have a SCSI box with a Exabyte 8500 drive and a CD-ROM drive setup to hook to any DEC system that needs it. The Alpha also has a TLZ06 drive installed in it, and a TZ30 and DLT7000 drive that can be hooked up. So if I cared to trust old tape drives, I have options for my backups. I don’t, so I’m looking to go virtual. Zane _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
