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From: tihor@acf4.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DEC to go with 4mm DAT technology ...
Message-ID: <13310019@acf4.NYU.EDU>
Date: 13 Nov 89 22:50:00 GMT
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Organization: New York University
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I talk to the product managers at DECUS and the DEC line is that the
8mm tapes suffer too many errors and can not be used in a seek and
access mode like magnetic tapes.  Specifically they do not have good
error behavoir if you streat them like normal tapes write files then
EOF and EOV and tape marks then backspacing to the EOV and rewriting it
with the next HDR label, etc.