Drive inventory

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Thu Feb 14 11:11:16 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Erlacher [mailto:edick_at_idcomm.com]

> Careful, now ... EXABYTE drives are 8mm helical-scan drives,
> while the DDS
> types are not. I have a number of Exabyte drives and I've
> found that, after
> the EXB8200, few of them will use tapes that aren't of the
> "DATA" type. I've
> tried standard handycam tapes, and the %$#_at_! things
> immediately spit them out!

Yep, that's my experience with the Eliant 820. All things
considered, OTOH, it makes a great backup device anyway, holds
7G native on a 160M cartridge, and came for free in a haul of
on topic VAX accessories. :)

> Likewise, the cleaning tapes, which puzzles me a great deal.
> I've had no such
> trouble with SONY cleaning tapes, however, probably because
> EXABYTE buys SONY
> transports.

That's good to know. I should find a cleaner for it.

Chris


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