On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:16:34AM -0700, W. Curtis Preston wrote:

We were told by sales rep of Midwest Systems that there are only 
two companies making DLT tapes: Fuji and Maxell, and this info 
came in from Imation. I do remember someone found similar info 
on Quantum Web site.
Imation brand contains Fuji+Maxell tapes 1:3. 
Maxell works for us much much better and cost less than Fuji and 
Imation, so we switched to Maxell. I collected statistic for 5000 tapes. 

By the way Midwest offered us free replacement for bad tapes if 
we provide them back without degaussing. 



> Does anyone remember a discussion a while back on how there were really 
> only two manufacturers of DLT media in the world, and that everyone else 
> used those two and repackaged them?  There were allegedly some markings on 
> the tape which would tell you which of the two your vendor uses.
> 
> 1. Is this true?
> 2. Do you know of any source that can verify this?
> 3. Who are those two companies?
> 4. What are the markings?
> 
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