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Article #873Re: DEC to go with 4mm DAT technology ...
From: Stephen Tihor
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 22:50
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1989 22:50
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I talk to the product managers at DECUS and the DEC line is that the 8mm tapes suffer too many errors and can not be used in a seek and access mode like magnetic tapes. Specifically they do not have good error behavoir if you streat them like normal tapes write files then EOF and EOV and tape marks then backspacing to the EOV and rewriting it with the next HDR label, etc.
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