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There was a lot of junk in the way of tape drives out at the time. We wouldn't endorse any kind of tape that (a) didn't use a standard SCSI interface and command set (b) didn't perform read-after-write verification. 4mm DAT barely qualified, but we cautioned against it as being not-quite-ready-for-serious-use. The only Travan drive that even came close was an HP model that claimed to do read-after-write. Our customers used this stuff out in the field almost exclusively, so it also had to survive environmental stress. To their credit, I've a number of Zip drives and at least 2 Jaz drives as well as a couple of Bernoullis and they all seem to work fine. But recommending something for rugged use is a different matter entirely. Most customers eventually went to purchasing hard drives to hold backup data.