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
riday, May 12, 2000 8:36 AM
To: retro-talk
Subject: Re: AIT tape loaders-any real world experiences?
(Sorry for the slow response...)
Let me just ask you, we're looking into getting an AIT, isn't it Sony that
are doing all the technology stuff and other brands, like Seagate and LaCie
put Sonys
I have a different solution: two AIT drives.
1. If one drive fails for some reason, you can still run backup and do
restores.
2. You can always have a blank tape in the second drive just waiting
until it's needed.
3. You can double overnight and weekend backup with two tapes.
4. You're not
On 5/3/00 18:23 ed hintz via email account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated the
following...
I'm running a system with about 100 cpus. To this point we've been using
a single AIT2 drive, and doing a lot of tape changing to deal with backups
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Subject: AIT tape loaders-any real world experiences?
Howdy,
I'm running a system with about 100 cpus. To this poi
(Bob said: "I attempted to post a message to the "Retro-Talk " mailing list
this
morning and experienced some difficultyPossibly you can pass this
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On 5/3/00 18:23 ed hintz via email account: [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated the
Actually, tape loaders are very inexpensive -- a 15 tape library chassis
costs less than a second AIT-2 drive.
You can't beat the redundancy of two drives though (a lot of customers will
put two AIT drives into a single tape library - the chance of both drives
going south at the same time is
