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- From: medin@catbyte.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Dave Medin)
- Subject: Re: Advice needed on Colorado Tape drive.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.221349.20755@b30.ingr.com>
- Sender: medin@catbyte (Dave Medin)
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- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville AL
- References: <1992Jul25.000434.15991@polaris.utu.fi> <1992Jul25.231730.32756@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:13:49 GMT
- Lines: 43
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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:
- |> : However, if you're going to use that tape drive heavy, don't buy Colorado.
- |> : It seems to be quite old-fashioned with it's technics and I don't believe
- |> : it will last long in heavy use. (I can't explain why, my vocabulary is not
- |> : big enough...)
- |> :
- |>
- |> 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.
-
- I've had very few problems with either my Colorado DJ-10 or DJ-20.
- Let me put a plug in for their customer support, though. The drive
- comes with lifetime 1-800 tech support. They also have a BBS for
- downloading the latest drivers. When I called with a problem, I was
- asked what driver version I had. When it turned out not to be the latest,
- the rep told me I could download the new driver, but that he'd send
- me the disk anyway at no charge! Sure enough, I got a disk as well,
- UPS BLUE LABEL, without even asking for it.
-
- The only problem I've had with my DJ-20 is that I have to select
- "N" for simultaneous disk/tape access in the software setup
- menu or I cannot get past the 20 megabyte point. I don't exactly
- know what I'm losing, and the rep didn't either beyond the fact that
- it eliminated the kind of typical problem I was reporting.
-
- I found that selecting software compression (time-optimized) tends
- to bring out the worst in the tapes I use (3M). I've had several
- non-recoverable errors in volumes where I used compression, where I
- had none in non-compressed volumes. It figures...
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