Exabyte

[D. Baldwin]

	HELP!!!  We have an Exabyte 8mm tape drive that we want to run off of a
Dec Station 3100. Its hooked up and reads and writes fine,the only problem is
that when I write a file,read it back and diff them---THEY ARE DIFFERENT. This test
was done on text files so I can actually see the dropped bytes. It happens every time
although the errors are only a small percentage of the data. Someone has told me that some
switches need to change on the drive. Can anyone help me on this ?

	Secondly, I live in Boulder,Co , home of the Exabyte. Several times a week,the
newspapers report that this company is really doing tremendously. I work at the
Enginerring building at University of Colorado and there are several Exabyte drives
here. NO ONE is even remotly happy with these drives. We had to get 4 different drives
until we found one that worked(sometimes). What is the concensus on these drives. We
think they are peices of ****.
		Thanks,
		Dan Baldwin
		baldwin at boulder.Colorado.EDU