Re: Tape Belts, was: FTGH: FH disk drives (and one HH) - Toronto + Scotch DC 300XL tapes

2021-10-30 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/30/21 7:38 PM, Jonathan Chapman via cctalk wrote: > The belts are more or less all failing at this point, even on the newer > multi-gigabyte QICs. I finally had to stop extracting the good ones from > newer tapes, boiling, and reusing because that was not reliable anymore. > Seems

Re: Tape Belts, was: FTGH: FH disk drives (and one HH) - Toronto + Scotch DC 300XL tapes

2021-10-30 Thread Jonathan Chapman via cctalk
The belts are more or less all failing at this point, even on the newer multi-gigabyte QICs. I finally had to stop extracting the good ones from newer tapes, boiling, and reusing because that was not reliable anymore. Seems everyone is using these nowadays: