Path: utzoo!yunexus!ists!mike
From: mike@istsists.ca (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Megatape 8mm backup device
Message-ID: <271@istsists.ca>
Date: 25 Nov 88 18:46:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: istsists.271
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Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
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In article <125900002@ishmael> cball@ishmael writes:
>Do the Megatape drives read after write to verify that the data written
>on the tape really made it? 

Yes.

No one with a large disk should be without one.  But note that equivalent
DAT drives are just hitting the market.  My guess is that the 8mm format
is a transitional format.


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