Jeff Kell ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

> The [DDS] drive had creeped out of alignment, but thte only indication
> was trying to read it's tapes on another drive.  We had the drive replaced
> today, but bear in mind that by "repairing" such drives means that you
> can no longer "read" tapes recently written on that drive, so beware.

Sounds like Alfredo's old anecdote about having a system devoted to
restoring from backups (to ensure their validity once and for all)
may be at least as important with DDS tapes as it ever was with reels,
especially if this is the backup medium to be used for disaster recovery.

(Then again, given the apparent extreme sensitivity to a given drive,
I'm still not convinced that DDS is the appropriate solution for this
anyway.)

--Glenn Cole
  Software al dente, Inc.
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