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Article #20298Re: CMS Jumbo tapes - Does it really matter which brand?
From: Bruce Hamilton
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:38
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:38
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I thought that Dysan used to be a premium media name. A couple of weeks ago I bought some Dysan 2120 mini-QIC cartridges for my Colorado Memory tape drives (one 120MB, one 250MB drive). On one drive it wouldn't format-- gave a "drive motor failure" message-- you could hear the speed winding down. On the 250 drive, another one formatted and wrote, but refused to restore-- gave me a bunch of "file not found" errors. Also, the base plate of the cartridge was too hot to touch -- probably 120 degrees or more. I've had good luck with Verbatim and 3M, but it sounds like you should avoid Dysan. -- --Bruce Xerox Corp., 101 Continental Blvd. ESC1-611, El Segundo, CA 90245 BHamilton.LAX1B@Xerox.COM 213/333-3538
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!rpi!uwm.edu!biosci!parc!vine.cp10.es.xerox.com!hamilton From: hamilton@vine.cp10.es.xerox.com (Bruce Hamilton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: CMS Jumbo tapes - Does it really matter which brand? Summary: Dysan bad Message-ID: <1993Jan27.023823.23873@vine.cp10.es.xerox.com> Date: 27 Jan 93 02:38:23 GMT References: <C1ExnK.1zF@encore.com> Sender: BHamilton.LAX1B@Xerox.com Reply-To: BHamilton.LAX1B@Xerox.com Followup-To: BHamilton.LAX1B@Xerox.com Organization: Xerox Corp., El Segundo, CA, USA Lines: 18