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- From: feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke)
- Subject: Re: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.121747.3301@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- Organization: AT&T
- References: <1992Jul25.000434.15991@polaris.utu.fi> <1992Jul25.231730.32756@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:17:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul25.231730.32756@slate.mines.colorado.edu> cjmarsha@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Charles Marshall) writes:
- >katuulos@polaris.utu.fi (Kalle T. Tuulos) 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.
- >
-
- My Jumbo250 failed totally at 15 months. "Tape drive error 99 0b".
- Although the manual says this requires reformatting the tape,
- which made no difference whatsoever, a call to CMS brought an
- immediate "Your drive has failed".
-
- For $105 CMS will fix it. Since they are so prepared, I have
- a suspicion that short life is a problem.
-
- Forrest Gehrke feg@dodger.att.com
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