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- From: smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
- Subject: Re: Tape drive questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.210716.21026@ichips.intel.com>
- Originator: smintz@sedona
- Keywords: tape drives
- Sender: smintz@sedona (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
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- Organization: Intel Corporation
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:07:16 GMT
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- Colorado (Terisa Hanson of tech support) says that that are in the final
- completion of writing software, that will delete the last volume on a tape (ei
- what ever you last wrote to the tape) they can't make it delete randomly (or in
- the middle of the tape) due to the fact that Tape drives are unintigent units,
- and mainly use timing for read and writing, and if you tried to write in the
- middle of a tape, it might run right over the next volume. This software will
- let you delete the tape volume by volume, starting with the latest volume
- first...it is still a nice feature..!!!
- Stephen
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