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From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Help on tape drive interoperability/reliability
Message-ID: <5787@holston.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 90 05:18:11 GMT
References: <53180005@hpindda.cup.hp.com> <335@metran.UUCP>
Organization: Barton A. Fisk Inc.
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In article <335@metran.UUCP> jay@metran.UUCP (Jay Ts) writes:
>In article <53180005@hpindda.cup.hp.com>, rajs@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Rajeev Seth) writes:
>> Everex tech support told me that it is not good enough that two different
>> tape drives/machines read/write QIC-24 because the controller card for the
>> drive has some security PAL chip that attempts to make sure data is read
>> back on the same machine it was archived from. Do you guys find this to be
>> true with other brand drives or not?

Hmmm..I have found this to *NOT* be true at all, as I have a customer
that has 3 boxes all with Everex QIC-24 drives and we regularly move
tapes back and forth between all three.

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