> On Mar 17, 2017, at 12:18 PM, Gary Lee Phillips <tivo.ov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> In any case, the issue I had was that the particular drive on the 8200 would
> not read back tapes written even by itself. We used it only for backups from
> the hard drive. DEC support was called in several times to adjust, calibrate,
> test, etc. It worked best only with DEC-branded media and if the heads were
> cleaned before every single use, and finally they just shrugged and said "Use
> only our media." Of course, theirs cost about twice what we paid for the
> large bulk quantities of 9 track tape used in the IBM center on the floor
> below. It wasn't my problem at that point, and my boss just ordered some
> tapes from DEC.
Wow. That's quite outrageous. My boss would have said "replace the entire
drive and controller if necessary"; the answer you got was entirely
unacceptable and the people who said it had no business working for DEC.
paul
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