Re: 7208

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My comment was limited to reel-to-reel tapes only.

Al

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                    Brad Jensen
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barsa@barsaconsulting.com wrote:
>
> Long tapes were never supported by IBM on any AS/400 tape drive.

So i had better emulate the SCSI tape drive with the largest
capacity. I know that some 8MM go to 20 GB uncompressed.

IBM must be counting bytes it is sending, that's pretty amazing.

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