23 Sep
2010
23 Sep
'10
6:44 a.m.
On 9/23/10 9:39 AM, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
Video was commonly *tried* with 8500s, but not many people got very
far. Our error rates with "good" video tapes were upwards of 20%.
I've
added a scsi tape drive to my collection. I hope to use
it with my Sparcbook. It is a Sun box with a sticker on it saying
that it is a EXB-8500C drive. Do I need special 8mm tapes
with it? How do I know what tapes will work with it?
I've never dealt with these drives before.
Especially for the low-capacity 8500/8200 Exabyte drives, 8mm video tape
was commonly used with the drives. Some may say that "isn't reliable", but
8mm drives tend to not have
great reliability due to their helical scan head, including the fact
that they tend to drift out of alignment over time.
"Write-only media", yes. I've never seen a tape as unreliable as an
8200/8500.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL