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From: paul@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Helical-scan tape drives
Message-ID: <2472@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 10 Apr 88 15:36:47 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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Keywords: reliability

I noticed that one posting recently referred to repeated read/writes on
these units to test tape reliability.  Has anyone tested repeated reads?
This is probably more critical than a write/read test since I assume error
correction and skipping bad spots occurs normally under write/read.
Attempting to restore the same file 100 times, however, would be a better
indication of tape reliability.  (I lost the posting referred to above.)

Paul Lansky
Music Dept
Princeton Univ.

Opinions my own.