[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Mon Jul 27 19:15:19 EDT 2020


=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
>My experience was that 60m DAT was good, but that 90m was bad
>and 120m (or was it 125m ? long time ago!) was horrible.

Depends a lot on the transport.  The HP stacker drive was fine with 120m
tapes, but many other transports did not deal well with them and could not
keep constant tape tension.
--scott
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