[Ham-Computers] RE: DVD Media Question

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Jeff,

Back in the days when I had a "Day Job", we had a tape changer with software 
that ran on a Novell 4.x server.  Did a daily, weekly and monthly backup 
automagically.  Never had a bit of trouble with it.  But of course it wasn't 
running under Windows, either.  We did get a bad batch of tapes, once.  Same brand 
as we always had used.

Which reminds me.  I have a Sony DAT drive if anyone needs one for a spare.  
SCSI interface.  I'll have to look but I think it's most likely the 4GB model, 
surplused out of our spares inventory when we went up to the 9.1's.

In a message dated 1/21/2005 8:08:12 AM Central Standard Time, jeffv at op.net 
writes: 
> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 00:10, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
> >few months, I realized that I had had to discard most of the first several 
> >batches that I had bought, not because they failed a write but because they 
> failed 
> >a read or wouldn't even mount.  
> 
> I'm getting deja-vu.
> Just substitute `backup tapes' for CD's and there you have it.
> 
> In something like 10 years of backing up, the only solution that worked
> 100% of the time was a DOS-based package that ran a changer.  As soon as
> it hit Windows, it went to hell (where Arcserve will eventually burn).
> 
> Then we got the Sony AIT drives......  had to return both of them once.
> 

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