Joel,
I personally don't have any experience using Onstream's Echo drives. I am
however very familiar with the (-206) error that you are talking about. We
experience this continually with our 8mm Exabyte drives. It seems that at
least once a year we are sending the drive back for repairs (service
contract) or purchasing a new one. More recently we purchased a Quantum DLT
drive that has been working great! I guess it all comes down to the fact
that you pay for what you get. Hope this helps.
Chad Chelius
> We've been backing up to Onstream's Echo drives (DI30: IDE, 15GB) with mixed
> results. I like these drives (price is nice, IDE interface) but lately I've
> been wondering about the quality.
>
> Two out of the three we've purchased so far were plagued by bad media errors
> (-206) in Retrospect. I tried different tapes and in fact the tapes that
> resulted in the errors worked fine on the third tape drive.
>
> Has anyone else had experience with these drives? What's your opinion? We
> have another one on order but I think that will be the last if this happens
> again.
>
> I was thrilled by the idea that I could have 4 or 5 of these working
> together for the price of 1 DAT drive so I'll be disappointed if it turns
> out they are junk.
>
> I know this isn't technically a Retrospect question so feel free to blast me
> but I figured this would be the best place to ask this question.
>
> Joel Moore
> DCI Systems, Inc.
>
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