home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!think.com!sid
- From: sid@think.com (Sid Stuart)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 Tapes
- Date: 9 Sep 1992 17:34:33 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
- Lines: 16
- Message-ID: <18lcj9INNjgt@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <3217@peking.gdwb.oz.au> <pge9pm4@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1992Sep6.144956.7974@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: grub.think.com
-
- >
- >Video grade SONY (P6-120MP) tapes work just fine in 8500s.
- >I have heard that SONY ships more video grade tapes for Exabytes
- >than they do for camcorders.
- >--ghg
-
- That has not been our experience. We had problems with several
- systems until we switched to data grade tapes. We have used and
- are using video grade tapes in 8200's, but the 8500's fail
- consistantly with video grade.
-
- --
- Sid Stuart, Thinking Machines Corp.
-
- sid@think.com
- {uunet,harvard}!think!sid
-