Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 17:59:43 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 Message-ID: <199810032259.RAA13143@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) of "Sat, 03 Oct 1998 11:53:27 -1000." <199810032153.LAA10068@pegasus.com>
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Richard Foulk writes: > Rewind and verify is unnecessary on Exabytes. They do their own verify. > That's one of the reasons they're so robust. If a write fails they just > write again on the next section of tape. Same holds true with 4mm (DDS) and real-QIC (QIC-150 and the like). > I've had good results with 10-year old tapes written on various drives. > Mostly on Sony tapes. > > Compatibility and longevity haven't been a problem. There were some > compatibility problems when Exabytes were new, but have long-since > been fixed. > > Data quality tapes are necessary for the higher density drives. The > 8200's work fine with good quality video tapes. > > On anything above an 8200 video tapes are not recommended. On 8200's > they are the right choice. I have trashed too many Exabyte 8505's trying to read data on video tapes to accept your statement. I'm not just worried about reading the data, its just that the only times (about twice per year) I've messed up an Exabyte drive has been when a video tape has been inserted. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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