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- From: katuulos@polaris.utu.fi (Kalle T. Tuulos)
- Subject: Re: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.212903.15232@polaris.utu.fi>
- Organization: University of Turku, Finland
- References: <1992Jul25.000434.15991@polaris.utu.fi> <1992Jul25.231730.32756@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 21:29:03 GMT
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- cjmarsha@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Charles Marshall) writes:
- >As for heavy usage: I've been using a CMS tape drive 5 days a week, at
- >least 1 hour a day for the last 11 months without any problems. It's not
- >the fastest system, nor the biggest. But for the price, it's great.
-
- When I inspected my Colorado tape drive, I had used it for approx. 10 hours:
- two 60MB tapes formatted, one full backup, couple of incremental
- backups, couple of restores. The read/write-head was quite scratchy so that
- the mirror-like surface was away and the next, brass-like-colored layer was
- visible. I use 3M 's tapes. The switch used in tape drive is the same type
- like used in old joysticks (kalvokytkin in finnish) and the frame is made
- of plastic instead of metal. And last, the drive heats very much, so when
- I had formatted my 60MB tape, the aluminium (I believe) underplate of the
- tape carbridge was so hot it was not pleasure to touch it.
- BUT however, I have got no problems using my tape drive.
-
- >Charles
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- Kalle T. Tuulos katuulos@utu.fi
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