Art Bahrs writes:

>   I just got off the phone with a tech at the RC (name withheld on
>purpose ) who informed me that it is not recommended to use anything other
>than a 125 m tape in a DDS-3 tape drive when making SLT's ...
>
>So, what does everyone think???  Does this help lend credence to the theory
>that DDS-3 Drives and MPE 6.5 pp2 don't always play well with each other?

I don't know about that combination in particular, but I do know that
when I switched from using DDS-2 tapes to using DDS-3 tapes in our DDS-3
drive, the number of write errors went from about one in eight to less
than one in 50.

For what it's worth, I haven't found a similar disparity in reliability
between DDS-3 and DDS-4 tapes in our DDS-4 drive. Both provide excellent
reliability -- and we verify every store and do a test-restore monthly.

-- Bruce


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