At 8:51 AM -0700 21/8/00, Steve Axthelm wrote:
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>Is this drive just broken? Is this something that just happens
>sometimes with DDS mechanisms? Will tape drives ever be reliable?
I've used a variety of DDS2/3 drives and never had one munch a tape.
In fact they've all proved completely reliabl
>Will tape drives ever be reliable?
As long as they are mechanical devices, no.
But you can get closer to perfection...
I had nothing but troubles with 4mm drives. In the department I am
in we've had lots of 4mm DAT drives go belly up. In the meantime,
our Linux guru keeps plugging away wit
Hi all,
We've got a APS DDS4 (Sony SDT-1) that eats a tape every month or
so. It's been back to APS once and I thought it was fixed, but today
:::munch:::.
When it eats one, it will eject the tape, but but a loop of the tape
will still be inside the drive. One thing I just noticed is that
