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Re: 120M Tapes In DDS-2
From:
Bob Tyler <[log in to unmask]>
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[log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 2 Mar 1998 17:25:56 -0600612_- Sure!

Next time you get a GPF (which maybe sooner than you think) DON'T PRESS
"OK". Press the "Print Screen button on your keyboard, this will put the
entire contents of your screen into the clip-board. Now you can press "OK".
If your system is still usable, run Paint Brush and paste in the screen
<CNTRL-V>. Edit this image by cutting out the tombstone, then open a new
image, paste in the tombstone, and saveAs a BMP file. Paint Brush can not
save as a GIF, if you don't have any other imaging software, I recommend
running MS-Word 97. Insert [...]48_2Mar199817:25:[log in to unmask]
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On Thu, 5 Mar 1998 11:23:43 -0800, Garo K Akcelik
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Garo!

You posted to the group! I didn't know you lurked in this newsgroup...
Have you tried comp.software.year-2000?

Sorry comp.sys.hp.mpe - I couldn't help myself.

Bob Tyler...

A non-HP employee working at HP

>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

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