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