RE: IBM 7208 model 342 tape drive / Mammoth tape drives

A customer of mine had a problem with an exabyte drive like that.  Everything 
saved fine, but
nothing would restore.  I remember joking with him because he used to brag 
about how fast the drive
saved objects.  I told him that if I didn't have to be able to restore the 
objects, I could build a
tape drive that would save his entire system in 1 second.

Art Tostaine, Jr.
CCA, Inc.
Jackson, NJ 08527


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Mark A. Manske
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 1:13 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L (E-mail)
Subject: FYI: IBM 7208 model 342 tape drive / Mammoth tape drives


No matter what the sales/techy people tell you;

They are NOT compatible; send a tape off to a fellow that has one to make
sure that the tape was not damaged, he did a rstlib, savlib on the 7208 with
no problems, got it back here, the mammoth tape drive think ALL objects are
damaged; this is not a tape issue either (used their only "authorized" tape
of an exabyte brand)    Even though we have a dual drive, an offline copy
gave us the same results, damaged objects.
Mark A. Manske

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