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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.radio.cz!CESspool!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!newsgate.unisource.nl!fido.news.demon.net!demon!sun4nl!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!sun3.iaf.nl!gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl!geert From: geert@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Finding Reliable DAT Drives Date: 29 Apr 1997 10:23:22 GMT Organization: La Calandre Infortunee Message-ID: <5k4i6q$4r4$1@gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl> References: <kientzleE8v0Ly.5zp@netcom.com> <5jv53r$7nc@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5k2onp$q35@samba.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gonzo.sun3.iaf.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 23 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39986 Frank McConnell (fmc@rahul.net) wrote: Tapes have been throwaways for as long as I can remember. They stretch, they wear, they fail in all manner of interesting ways. Some you can prevent or defer with proper cleaning of drives (and, in an earlier era, tapes). Some you can't. Some can only be deferred so long. I use an Archive Viper 150 tape drive with DC6150 tapes. I use these tapes almost daily to transfer data to and from the university. I find that these tapes are much more reliable than floppies even when I use them daily. I have never had a single read or write error with one of my tapes. Now that these drives and tapes are so cheap (often you can get them for free) they are a good replacement for floppies IMHO. You can store more than 100 floppies on them as well. O, and they are much faster than floppies. So much for outdated technology... Regards, Geert BTW. I must confess I never clean the tape heads and I am quite sure those at the university are not cleaned either.