29 Jan
2023
29 Jan
'23
4:15 a.m.
On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Larry McVoy wrote:
[...]
I've never seen a more fragile system than those
exabyte. By
comparison, the old SCSI QIC 150s, while small, were industructible, I
think you could have used the tapes as hammers and they'd still read.
Same thing for 9 track.
My experience with Exabytes was different; we used "data" tapes, not the
cheaper "video" tapes and had no problems over many years.
In fact, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data8 we see:
``The cassettes have the same dimensions and construction as the
cassettes used in 8 mm video format recorders and camcorders.''
In other words, they are not the same thing...
-- Dave