8 Dec
2006
8 Dec
'06
1:11 p.m.
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Thursday 07 December 2006 19:11, Tothwolf wrote:
Got an autochanger? The older ones are pretty cheap too, it might pay for
itself ;)
I don't think degaussing hurts 8mm (someone correct me if I'm wrong),
though I have no idea what it does to the higher density DLT/SDLT stuff. I
know it won't hurt the TK50/TK70 carts, though in the case of the TK70s,
some drives might think they are TK50s until they get rewritten.
-Toth
Won't degaussing DDS tapes wipe the factory
written sync stuff and
render the tapes worthless? (That was my experience with some years ago
anyway...)
It looks like you're right. I'm glad that no one has requested any DDS
media. :) It looks like I probably won't be able to offer it (at least
not at that low of a price) if I have to erase it with a drive rather
than just throw it on the degausser for a few seconds.