24 Jul
2018
24 Jul
'18
11:51 a.m.
On 07/24/2018 12:42 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
I wrote a lot of DDS2 and DDS3 tapes back in the day.
When my DDS3
drive broke, I got another drive. I found out that my first drive was
seriously out of calibration, and though it could read its own tapes,
other drives could not. All the data was gone.
Ouch!
That sounds like a common type of problem, namely single point of
failure on alignment. I think I've heard of the same for floppy drives too.
I'm considering getting an LTO drive, but I
won't do it unless either I
buy two drives, or find someone else with the same generation LTO drive
who would like to exchange encrypted backup tapes for verification.
Valid concern.
I would also like to confirm that your drive can also read tapes from
your friend's alternate drive.
I'd really prefer if it was a trio of drives. But that's even more
expensive / unlikely / difficult to achieve goal.
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Grant. . . .
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