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- From: se@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Steve Elliott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 Tapes
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.092208.24633@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 09:22:08 GMT
- References: <la204fINNkia@ai.cs.utexas.edu> <3217@peking.gdwb.oz.au> <pge9pm4@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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- In article <pge9pm4@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >Note that Exabyte claims that the video grade tapes work very
- >poorly, if at all, in 8500 mode. Some folks report OK results
- >with video grade in 8500 mode, others confirm the Exabyte warning.
-
- I've been using Sony P6-120MP tapes in my 8500 for a couple of months
- now with no problems.
- I suspect Exabyte are trying to push us all into buying much more
- expensive data grade tapes.
-
- Steve
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