Now that you mention it, one of our clients experienced many problems
with DDS -2 drives. And I think it only really started when 120M DATs
were introduced.

It was sporadic enough for us not to connect the 120m DATs to the
problem.

The client has since moved to DDS-3 drives, and uses 125m DATs for up to
36GB per DAT (3.1 compression with TurboStore software compression). No
problems so far (tap mouse).

Perhaps it's because the 120m DATs came out after the DDS-2 Drives?
Maybe newer DDS-2 Drives would not have had these problems?

Fortunately, only once did we experience a dreaded failure on restore -
most failures were on write.

Neil


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garo K Akcelik [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 1998 9:24 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: 120M Tapes In DDS-2
>
> Jim Phillips writes:
>
> I recently had a technical support person from a backup software
> company tell me not to use 120M tapes in our DDS-2 drive because
> of wear and tear problems caused to the drive by the tapes!?!
>
> Has anyone else heard anything like this?
> ________________________________________________________
>
> I can confirm that. In my last company we did have problems restoring
> from
> 120M
> tapes. Never a problem with 90M tapes. After happening a couple off
> times,
> our
> Director of I.S. made it a policy to use 90M only for all backups.
>
> Garo K. Akcelik
> System Administrator
> Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon