[Info-vax] TK50 - this is annoying...

[Paul Sture]

In article <k4vkn4$o4r$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>,
 Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> On 2012-10-08 20:31, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> > In article <k4uvrv$ds6$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
> > 	kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:

> >> Amazingly enough, the modern DLT and SDLT drives are pretty reliable.  I
> >> have never seen one jam and shred a tape, although I have seen plenty of
> >> them lose the leader hook.
> >
> > Yeah, I have some of them, too.  I hav e never tried it, but it might be
> > fun to put one on a PDP-11 and do a full backup and restore just to see
> > how fast it can really be done.  :-)
> 
> I do that to DDS-3. Most of the time is spent by the 11/93 just sucking 
> data in, and writing it out again. It cannot keep the tape busy enough.
> 
> (Nice to have all the full backups, plus all the incremental backups on 
> the same tape...)

Shudders at the thought of relying on DDS-3 for all backups.

BTDT. Got bitten. :-(

-- 
Paul Sture