Drive inventory

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Thu Feb 14 17:01:29 2002

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
>
> > Not very well? There were so many different companies producing so many
> > different drives, that I don't think I could even begin to sum up all
> > the strange things that some drives did.
>
> How about describing a few oddities for posterity?

How about two drives trying to be active at the same time if you put them
on the same bus? Or, how about having major read/write problems with one
drive when you think the other drive isn't active? A lot of the old tape
drive software does not even report errors...

-Toth
Received on Thu Feb 14 2002 - 17:01:29 GMT