28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
2:19 p.m.
On 28/11/06 21:22, "arcarlini at iee.org" <arcarlini at iee.org> wrote:
DLT always had the decency to fail in non-destructive
ways, the tape
always survived intact.
Oo no, when the spool motor gets out of sync with the cart motor (or the
cart motor dies) much snappage takes place resulting in me swearing a lot
while I manually unspool an entire cart's worth of tape from the spool reel
:) To be fair this doesn't happen as often as snapped take-up leaders or
dead PSUs in external boxes, but it does happen.
But to what should it be migrated. Don't all tape
units rely
on rollers somewhere? CD and/or DVD doesn't have a reputation
DLTs and Ultriums all use metal rollers, no traces of rubber anywhere,
fortunately.
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