Preventing cartridge tape stickiness

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Oct 19 00:59:42 1999

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, R. D. Davis wrote:

>
> Can anyone provide any information about the best way to preserve
> cartridge tapes, such as DC300 tapes, so that parts of the tape don't
> stick together? Using new 3M DC300 tape several years ago, onto which
> I'd copied the source code to the S.6 version of the Accent operating
> system, the tape stuck together about two years later and was
> destroyed when I tried to read it. Not sure how to try to preserve the
> rest of the data, written with the Stut (the streaming tape utilitu
> software) software, that's still on the tape - any ideas?

The only thing that I would suggest is to retension them periodically
before they start to stick adjacent layers.

                                                 - don
>
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>
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