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Subject: Re: Tape terror
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In article <7572@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes:
>A question for IBM:  why _in the world_ would a company put out a product
>which by default would do such a thing?  It really makes the system seem
>cruddy and slow.

I'm sure they do it because it's better for the tape.  Retensioning
undoubtedly reduces tape i/o errors, but takes longer.  If you want to
turn it off, you can take the chance.

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