[rescue] Exabyte 8500 questions

[dave at cca.org]

n7pgz at eudoramail.com writes:

>There is one thing that is making me nervous,
>though. The drive only seems to make tape
>drive type noises at the beginning and end
>of the dump. The rest of the time it is
>virtually silent. By tape drive type noises,
>I mean the "whirrrrrrp... grind-grind-grind"
>that I am used to from PeeCee cartridge drives
>and Archive 1/4" drives I have used in
>the past. Are 8500s (and possibly other 8mm
>drives) supposed to be this quiet?

DAT drives suck the tape in and wrap it around a 
spinning drum that has the heads on it. Pulling the
tape in, and returning it later, makes a lot of noise.
Once it's in place, streaming it around the drum is
very quiet.

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