In article <1992Aug11.203132.11397@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes...
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>In article <1992Aug11.124211.5861@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
> 
>| >What would linux be without 2 AM kernel patches? :) Or 3 different getty
>| >programs, shoelace, lilo, and 4 different versions of the kernel to play
>| >with? :)
>| 
>| Probably dead.  I have no intention that this changes, but I don't think
>| anybody is claiming that this is the ideal environment in which real
>| work should be made (no, I don't mean that you should use current Linux
>| for real work when it is still officially in beta).
> 
>  Linux won't be a "real" o/s until the production kernel (what Linus
>releases) includes support for (at least) SCSI and QIC-02 tapes. What
>good is a neat o/s which you can't back up?
> 
>  And while I may have have networking at home, most people don't have
>2nd machines, or ethernet, or anything like that, and are backing up to
>floppy, a solution which stops being practical about 20MB, and stops
>being possible about 60MB.
>-- 
>bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
>    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.

I have an Archive (I think that is it) 120 MB tape backup on my machine. It 
uses 3M DC2120 tapes. 

What format are these? QIC-02?

Regards
Richard Sharpe