8mm data cartridges

Rumor has it that Chuck Guzis may have mentioned these words: I've had both with both... ;-) Way back when ePay was young, I purchased a MaxOptix Tahiti-1 drive - it took standard 300Meg/side (flippy) 512byte sector 5.25" media, but it also took 500Meg/side flippy ultra-special Maxstor Tahiti disks... so the Tahiti-1 drive got it's name from the 1G (total) special disks it could use. I received 3 of the 300Meg/side media, and one of the Tahiti-1 disks in the deal. [[ I used it for backup media on a mailserver I'd built. ]] Still have the drive (it's a brick!) and last I checked it still worked... but I could *never* get it to reliably read/write/format the Tahiti-1 disk without data loss - but the standard 300Meg/side media was "bulletproof" and never had an issue. Never did figure out if it was the drive or the media - the Tahiti-1 media was mongo expensive, so I gave up on it. Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | Anarchy doesn't scale well. -- Me zmerch at 30below.com. | SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers