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- From: dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman)
- Subject: Re: Exabyte (8mm) vs. DAT (4mm), advice needed
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.235602.5508@kopachuk.uucp>
- Organization: Tacoma Screw Products, Inc.
- References: <1992Jul31.001931.3829@bnd2.bnd.oz.au> <1992Aug10.191729.3124@kopachuk.uucp> <6017@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:56:02 GMT
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- In article <6017@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com> shc@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (S.H. Couturie) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug10.191729.3124@kopachuk.uucp> dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman) writes:
- >>When we got our 8mm drive (1988) there was no such thing as data certified
- >>tapes. We used regular video tapes and retired them after 25 passes
- >>(the standard guide for broadcast video tape). Never had any
- >>trouble.
- >
- >I strongly recommend that the data grade tapes be used with the 8500
- >drives.
- >
- >We have 2 8500 drives on our Epoch-1 used very heavily for backups every
- >night. Before this January, they were 8200's; with the 8200's, the
- >video grade tapes worked fine -- we never had any trouble writing or reading
- >any tapes.
- >
-
- Well, this may explain our good results. We were indeed using an 8200.
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