Feedback wanted asap

[cdoerbec at cso.fmr.com (Christoph Doerbeck A242369)]

Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
> > If you can afford one, they are pretty painless.  Before the DLT we used
> > 4mm tapes, which frequently became corrupt, and caused some headaches. By
> > contrast, we have yet to have a DLT fail us.  They are expensive, but they
> > are fast and BIG. Works great with cron and tar.
> 
> Curious.  I've never had a "corrupted" tape on our HP1554 or HP1536 drives in
> over two years now.  I've been able to read any tape I've created...
> 

I can also vouch for corrupt 4mm tapes.  My experience is that 4mm drives
trend towards bad alignment quickly.  The result is that tapes written/read
by the same tape drive work, but if you replace the drive after a failure,
your tape library quickly turns into a warehouse of useless pooh... which
no one wants to discard because the tapes might be readable, but likely aren't.




- Christoph


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