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From: Kevin Coffman (kwcciti.umich.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 02 2001 - 15:00:07 CDT

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    > As a related item, HP has some new tape drives (the HP Ultrium 215 and
    > Ultrium 230) that use standard DLTtape IV cartridges, but hold 100/200 GB
    > per tape:
    > http://www.products.storage.hp.com/eprise/main/storage/DisplayPages/ultrium.
    > htm. I'm sure they cost a pretty penny, though...

    These aren't DLT, they are LTO (Linear Tape Open). A new open standard
    developed by IBM, HP, and Seagate. I don't think the medium is
    compatible.

    We just got one (i'm not sure if it is a 215 or a 230 since it came
    packaged in a changer). In our initial tests we are getting about 5MB
    (1/3 the advertised rate) writing to, and a dismal 200KB reading from,
    the drive on OpenBSD 2.8. How common is it to have such a difference
    between read and write speeds? We're still looking into this...

    K.C.