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- From: tgtbtk@tb3.chem.tue.nl (Toine Kuiper)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: dc2120 tape cartridge error rate
- Message-ID: <tgtbtk.726660822@tb3.chem.tue.nl>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 10:13:42 GMT
- References: <rreiner.726456920@yorku.ca> <12070021@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
- Reply-To: tgtbtk@chem.tue.nl
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- calloway@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Frank Calloway) writes:
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- >I read in one of the magazines (I think it was either "Windows" or
- >"Windows User") that Central Point Backup finds an unusually high
- >number of bogus errors on *any* tape. My experience with PC Tools 7.1,
- >which includes Central Point Backup, confirmed that for me. It found
- >errors on new tapes with my CMS Jumbo 120 tape drive that CMS's software
- >said were fine. According to the magazine article, Norton's Backup also
- >was able to use the tapes that Central Point Backup said were bad.
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- >Although its user interface is a bit crude, I'm using CMS's software
- >instead of Central Point Backup.
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- I got the same problems with CPbackup 7.2 and the CMS Jumbo 250.
- Since I started using the tape software from CMS I never had ANY
- problems.
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