Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:05:27 +0100 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drives... Message-ID: <19990203210527.32244@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199902031801.KAA15774@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don Lewis on Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 10:01:00AM -0800 References: <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199902031801.KAA15774@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>
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As Don Lewis wrote: > What's the wisdom these days about using different tape types? The > manufacturers used to recommend against this because the different > tape types would create different head wear patterns. I seem to remember a small sheet of paper saying it's not recommended to mix basic-length and extended-length tapes. So far, i've ignored it, and the drive already lasted longer than any helical-scan one i've seen so far (and which has also been used on a daily basis). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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