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Article #14Re: 5GB Exabyte tape drives: choice of media
From: Russ Poffenberger
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 23:09
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 23:09
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ejb@ERA.COM (Jay Berkenbilt) writes:
: Hello. I just recently sent our 5GB exabyte EXB-8500 8mm tape
: drive to be repaired after it had our most recent level zero
: backup tape for lunch. The vendors, naturally, attributed the
: problem (partly) on the choice of media. They believe that we
: should use only Exabyte's own tapes in the drive.
:
: Does anyone have any experience that would confirm or deny that
: advice? We were using DIC tapes and just bought 20 Maxells.
: Should we ditch the maxells (or use them on less sensitive tape
: drives such as a 2.3gb drive) and buy Exabytes or is it okay to
: use the Maxell tapes? Any words of wisdom on this topic would
: be appreciated.
Our vendor claims that anything other than exabyte media will void the
warranty, but all the paperwork shipped with the drive just says to use
datagrade. We have been using Verbatim data grade. We recently bought 3 drives,
2 have already been replaced under warranty becauyse of write failures.
Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!slcs.slb.com!leo.asc.slb.com!sjsca4!poffen From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware Subject: Re: 5GB Exabyte tape drives: choice of media Message-ID: <1992Oct27.230918.10193@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 27 Oct 92 23:09:18 GMT References: <1992Oct21.213427.641@ERA.COM> Sender: news@sj.ate.slb.com Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca. Lines: 23 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4