FWIW, a guy a Seagate told me they've found that tapes wear pretty quickly
in these things and that I should probably be replacing them more often
than I am. We cycle four different magazines through this thing and I was
just about to replace them when one got eaten. A production set of DAT
AFAIK, you are correct. All these guys are OEMing Sony's mechanism into
their boxes. BTW, Seagate isn't making the Sidewinder200 anymore. The
reason we went with Seagate's box is because we've had very good
experiences with their tech support and service. And indeed they came
through in
Seagate has stopped selling AIT units (although you can still buy leftover
stock in the channels).
All AIT heads are made by Sony but other companies do add-value. For
instance, we have an
optional two line, 40 column LCD not available on a "stock" Sony. It has
two processors
instead of one.
Thanks Matthew, I'd really like to try that, but the manual won't install on
the server, something about entering safe mode or something (remember, I'm a
Mac guy trying to deal with an NT client and have no idea what's going on
here).
When I try to download the windows manual, it comes in an exe
