Upgrade and give your 8mm tapes to a friend with a camcorder !
     We had to keep 5 8mm drives around just so we could keep two active at
     a time... once I had 2 running, 2 being repaired, 1 broken... the 2
     running went bad and when I got the 2 in from repairs... only one
     worked...and I would hate to be involved in a tax audit where the 8
     year old data was on 8mm tape... I had about 700 8mm tapes to get me
     thru until the 3590's came in... granted it you hae a very frequent
     cleaning schedule 8mm's do better but I saw about 0.5% tapes get
     errors out of the box, @2% errors on reads after only one write and
     maybe 5-7% errors on 2nd writes... I reached the point where I would
     write only once, then with critical data make two copies... and at
     20-30$$$ per tape it wasn't cheap...
     later
           Dwight



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Subject: What is the consensus on 8mm tape drives?
Author:  ADSM-L at unix,mime/dd.RFC-822=ADSM-L\@VM\.MARIST\.EDU
Date:    8/26/96 11:50 AM


Right now I'm having a fit with an Exabyte 8505.  I dump multiple AIX
filesystems to a tape
with this drive and occasionally one of these file systems is truncated
about 30 megs before
the end of the dump.  But the following dump is okay, along with the rest of
the tape.
How does this relate to ADSM?  This same tape drive is used to back up our
ADSM clients.  This is why I asked how reliable AUDIT is.  According to
AUDIT, my ADSM backups are okay.  Test restores
also show this to be true.  I'm hearing alot of bad rap about 8mm's in
general from oper-l and
this list as well.  I'm feeling uneasy.  Any advice?  Thanks.
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