[SunRescue] Tape drive

[Michael S. Schiller]

While on the subject of Tape drives, I have a couple of 8500 8mm tape drives
in my SC2000 (one came with it, the other moved from my SS690), and both of
them are complaining about needing 'periodic cleaning'. Where can I get the
proper cleaning tape for these? Am I correct in the assumption that a regular
video tape cleaner wouldn't be the correct thing to use?  Does the cleaning
tape somehow tell the drive it's been cleaned?

-Mike

Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 02:21:18AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > Tandberg MLR is one of the only other formats to give DLT a run for the
> > money....  Excellent tape handling (better even than QIC), and parallel
> > linear recording just like DLT.  Incredible tape life.  Even more
> > incredible drive life.  (Probably better than CD-ROM even!)
>
> I would be getting an old 5/10gig DLT for sunhelp.org, if 8mm media werent
> SO DAMNED CHEAP.  I mean, I have a few BOXES (e.g., shoeboxes or bigger)
> of old media in my garage.
>
> Bill (mm, just setup bind 9.1.2 as a local caching nameserver for my
> home network, I can quit hitting ohno from 8 hops away now...)
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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