From owner-freebsd-hackers  Wed Jan 10 10:52:25 1996
Return-Path: owner-hackers
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA23355
          for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:52:25 -0800 (PST)
Received: from yarrina.connect.com.au (yarrina.connect.com.au [192.189.54.17])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA23350
          for <hackers@freefall.freebsd.org>; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:52:15 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from root@localhost) by yarrina.connect.com.au with UUCP id FAA02568
  (8.6.12/IDA-1.6); Thu, 11 Jan 1996 05:51:57 +1100
Received: from localhost (giles@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nemeton.com.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA23206; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:07:30 +1100
Message-Id: <199601100907.UAA23206@nemeton.com.au>
Reply-to: giles@nemeton.com.au
Subject: Re: I would like your comment on this configuration 
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 20:07:28 +1100
From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
Apparently-To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Apparently-To: ken@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu
Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk


On Tue, 9 Jan 1996 21:24:49 -0500 (EST)  Kenneth Merry wrote:

> 	FWIW, my employer got 7 PC's with the HP1553A's in them...and
> has had trouble with tapes jamming in some of them.  (I didn't mess with 
> them much...so I can't really speak from personal experience. )  

In my experience problems with tapes jamming in DDS drives have
usually been traced back to the operators.  DDS drives are not as
robust as the QIC drives we used to use. :-(

If anyone can post anything substantive about problems with 120m tapes
in DDS-2 drives I'd be keen to hear.  This is the first problem I've
heard about recovering data from 120m tapes.

Regards,

Giles

P.S. I have only once lost data on a DDS tape: the tape had been
travelling in a car (not mine!) for six or eight weeks of an
Australian summer before it was used, which I figured was a reasonable
excuse ...