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Article #6093Re: MEI tapes
From: Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:07
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:07
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In article <shopsis.25@panther.adelphi.edu>, shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu (Charles Shopsis) writes: > I'd like to from people who've tried the relatively low priced 1/4 inch > data tapes that MEI recently started selling. I have found their 1.2 Mb > floppies to be quite satisfactory. I'll post a summary if there is > significant response. Thanks. > > Charles Shopsis, Dept. Chemistry, Adelphi Univ. Garden City, NY I have been using their DC2120 clones for several months now in Irwin and Colorado drives. So far, no problems although Irwin sometimes marks off a few 'bad sectors'. I am having problems with 3M tapes in the Colorado. After several months they suddenly die. You can't read them or even reformat them; however, if I bulk erase them the Irwin will format them marking off several bad sectors and they seem to work okay in that machine. Allen Mulvey mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!oswego!blurt.oswego.edu!mulvey From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: MEI tapes Message-ID: <1992Nov10.230706.809@blurt.oswego.edu> Date: 10 Nov 92 23:07:06 GMT References: <shopsis.25@panther.adelphi.edu> Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY Lines: 17