In our case, it was an IBM field tech who warned us.  Only, in our
case, the defect range we were told about was July 15, 1998 -
September 30, 1998.  Is there some sort of central repository where we
could locate information for ALL potentially bad tapes?

Eric L.




Larry Way <Larry.Way AT TRW DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 03/03/2000 01:23:02 PM

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I would be very interested in who passed that information onto you
about manufacturing process defect with 3570 tapes ...

Larry Way
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Hi all,

After we had four tapes sent to Tucson to try to retrieve the data off
them
(one's tape had snapped- which was a 1