Cleaning 8mm tape drives
Rob Logie
logier at cheops.qld.tne.oz.au
Sat Apr 20 18:39:31 AEST 1991
karl at quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl Anderson) writes:
>We've used the cleaning tapes provided by Exabyte to clean our
>8mm drives about once a month. Does anyone know if Exabyte
>cleaning tapes must be used, or is there another source for
>cleaning tapes? TIA.
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>Karl A. Anderson | Internet: karl at forest.gsfc.nasa.gov
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I have been usings a EXAbyte on a sun workstation for two years now,
Everynight a backup is done which uses most of a tape.
The tapes are then read back to check readability.
The tape drive has been cleaned once in two years, (When I bought it cleaning
tapes were not invented). I also use normal old Sony 8mm tapes
(None of this "Special" data cartridge that costs three times as much crap)
I have never had a problem with the drives of tapes (The tapes are reused
after a four week cycle) .
This exabyte is one of the most relabile tape drives I have on the network,
I agree that exabytes need to be cleaned, but I don't think it needs
to be done very often .
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