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From: richk@tera.com (Richard Korry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Exabyte Problem?
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 10 May 91 13:03:00 GMT
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I'm curious about people's retry rates on a Exabyte on a Sun 4/490.  I
tried three tapes and got the following numbers for a daily dump of around
150Mb:

Sony P6-120MP: 420 (Tape is about 3 months old, tenth use)
Maxell HS-8/112: 192 (tape is brand new, 1st use)
Exabyte-112: 222    ( tape is 6 months old, 5th use)

These seem high. Should I get Sun to come out and look at it? Thanks.