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From: fsfacca@AVELON.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Bad tapes again!!!!
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Date: 19 Sep 90 12:42:43 GMT
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>Two out of the last thirty tapes we've gotten from SGI have been bad.
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>Now, 2 out of 30 is a 7% failure rate.  With 6 tapes in average
>distribution, this would imply a 36% chance of at least one tape in the
>distribution being bad!  So either I have really rotten luck, two bad
>tape drives, or SGI has a big problem someplace.
>

Pick any two??  Though I haven't kept close track, I'd say your numbers are
right on target with what I've been experiencing.   In the 3.3 release (about
7 or 8 tapes) the DEV tape was bad.  This can be really frustrating since it
leaves the system pretty confused.  After a few shell escapes, a couple of
'versions remove' commands, and a new tape everything comes together, but..

>Anyone else looking forward to CD distributions?

Sign me up.


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