>
> Item Subject: Meddelandetext
> donna wrote:
> <...>
> > - as an aside, how many g-bytes will fit onto a 90 meter tape when
> > it's used in the 4+ g-byte w/ compression drive.  (yeah, i'll be
> > trying to buy 120m tapes now too...)
> <...>
> FWIW,
> we stuff at least 6-7 GBs on such a drive with 90 m tapes (if I remember
> correctly, 60m tapes were good for 5-6GBs before STORE asked for another
> tape (that hasn't happened yet with 90m tapes)), but, I guess, your
> mileage will vary depending on such things as what your files look like
> and what they contain. BTW we had problems with 120m tapes, not just in
> getting them, but in getting them to work as well (a lot of read/write
> errors, bad tape, and stuff). Anybody else had similar problems?
> /per
>
We recently put a DDS2 drive in a cabinet that is connected to our 927LX.
STORE reported very often a bad tape (120m). It turned out that there were
many IO errors on the SCSI bus. HP exchanged the CD-ROM (which was in
the 927LX itself) with the DDS2 drive and we had no more problems since
then.
 
Roman
 
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