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Concerning Mark Cooperstein's question of whether to use /NOCRC on 
MicroVAX IIs with a TK50 as the BACKUP output medium, I recall a session at
the Dallas DECUS with DEC Storage Group personnel discussing 'how fast
our tape drives go'.  They felt that since the TK50 handles CRC in hardware,
/NOCRC *was* justified.  Those who wrote BACKUP (in another session) disagreed.
Personally, I would use /NOCRC since the performance gain is so great I could
run a /VERIFY on every tape written in less time (for /IMAGE backups, for
example).  For non-image backups, your potential data loss is much less, so
the risk isn't as high.

Of course, my employer is more paranoid than I am, so we *always* use /CRC.

david l. bolthouse
texas instruments defense electronics information systems VAX system support
mckinney, texas

ma bell:  214.952.2059
csnet:    bolthouse%mccore@ti-eg
arpa:     bolthouse%mccore@ti-eg.csnet

disclaimer:  my employer runs 'two or three' VAXes.  if we were to lose data,
we would be in deep trouble.  if i lose data, that's not such a big deal.

Fortune:  'you pays your money and you takes your chances' -- Las Vegas high
          school dropout.