Drive inventory

From: r. 'bear' stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Fri Feb 15 16:59:40 2002

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Carl Lowenstein wrote:

> The only Data/DAT drives I ever used (Gigatrend) were hardly ever
> compatible from one drive to another. In fact they were seldom compatible
> on the same drive from month to month.

FWIW I have one of those drives. The mechanism was manufactured by JVC,
and I have not had much luck with it. I recall it being extremely
persnickety about errors on tapes, and even when I managed to get a whole
backup onto a tape without the drive going into fits, I was never able to
read that tape back to verify the data.

OTOH if the tapes had to be formatted before use and were block
addressable, that might tend to explain why I had such terrible luck using
that drive as a normal tape device under unix. What was the prescribed
method for using a tape in this drive?

ok
r.
Received on Fri Feb 15 2002 - 16:59:40 GMT