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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-10-09 03:59, Paul Sture wrote:
> 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. :-(

:-)
I regularly verify them, and so far no problems. But I have seen a large 
number of failed drives at places...

	Johnny