[TUHS] Someone wants to use an exabyte

[Clem Cole]

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 at servium.ch> wrote:

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> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 2:53 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> We called them buffered dev-nulls.
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> TBH, that's what we called most tapes except for DLTs.
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>> 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
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>> Larry McVoy                  lm at mcvoy.com
>> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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