"Shoe-shining" your data

[Steve Simmons]

thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:

>has anyone:

>1) heard of the phrase "shoe-shined" in this context, or

Absolutely.  If you're seriously looking at tape performance you're
bound to run into it eventually.

>2) heard of such a problem with streaming tape units?

More than I ever care to remember...sigh.
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Industrial Technology Institute     Ann Arbor, MI.
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