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From: Erstad@HI-MULTICS.ARPA
Newsgroups: mod.computers.apollo
Subject: 6250 tape drives
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Date: Thu, 3-Jul-86 13:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  3 13:00:00 1986
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We too have the CDC drive marketed through Apollo.  We have also
experienced numerous intermittent failures both in hardware and software
(The latter primarily occurs when trying to RBAK a file from the middle
or end of a tape - I think we finally got a patch for that).  We have
seen things like tapes which cannot be read several times in a row and
then the same tape can be read consistently (very scary).

It should be noted that our tape problems are exacerbated because of
some contractual disputes between variuos maintenance suppliers; thus,
things have dragged on longer than they otherwise might.