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Re: DDS-2 Tape Drive Symptoms
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Mark Klein <[log in to unmask]>
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Mark Klein <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 31 Jan 2002 07:25:59 -0800
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> Are these symptoms of the tape drive going
> bad or did it have a lobotomy in the firmware?

It needs a lobotomy. Experience at ORBiT tells me
that DDS-2 is the worst of the DDS implementations.
Don't fix it, but replace it with something else.
If you want to stay with DDS, I'd suggest a DDS-3
instead of 4 (DDS-4 runs into tape compatibility
issues with backward compatibility). I'd also be
extremely suspicious of any tape created with the
DDS-2.

Regards,


M.

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