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Article #319Re: MicroVAX II
From: Edward J Cetron
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1986 17:35
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1986 17:35
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[ offering to the great line eat We have had no trouble at all with the 5 tk50 drives that i have to work with.....we did have a LOT of trouble with the second batch of tk50 cartridges....As I understand the problem: 3M made the first large production run exactly to Digital specs...and they worked fine...Then, in a cost cutting move, they changed the formulation of the glue holding the leader to the tape itself...and they blew it...it degraded and let go and gummed up the works...etc,etc... Well Digital was furious and forced (??) them to recall all of them.. Since we have gotten the new batches, I have not had any problems at all... (note: we only use them for backup and software distribution) (note2: also, when using backup, explicitly use as large a block size as possible....I have found that vms backup with a block size of 32000 and 5 buffers will back up a 71 meg disk in about 15 minutes...) -ed cetron center for engineering design univ of utah cetron%utah-cbd@utah-cs.arpa
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!ucbvax!hplabs!utah-cs!cetron From: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron) Newsgroups: net.decus Subject: Re: MicroVAX II Message-ID: <3886@utah-cs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Aug-86 13:35:34 EDT Article-I.D.: utah-cs.3886 Posted: Sat Aug 9 13:35:34 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Aug-86 07:39:12 EDT References: <896@unirot.UUCP> <553@helm.UUCP> Reply-To: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron) Distribution: net Organization: Center for Engineering Design, Univ of Utah Lines: 25 Keywords: TK-50 tape drive