Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!bcsaic!jsadler From: jsadler@bcsaic.UUCP (James Sadler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Pre-formatted tapes for HP drives Summary: reliability of HP tape cartridges Message-ID: <9055@bcsaic.UUCP> Date: 7 Dec 88 06:07:19 GMT References: <1074@statware.UUCP> <26038@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> Reply-To: jsadler@bcsaic.UUCP (James Sadler) Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle Lines: 35 In article <26038@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes: ><1074@statware.UUCP>, by scf@statware.UUCP (Steve Fullerton): >- In article <26007@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes: Stuff deleted > >Not a problem with HP-UX. I remember the hassles with using non HP tapes >on HP-1000s. When HP first came out with these drives, it might have made >sense to go with these "high-density" tape cartridges, but I wish they'd >join the rest of the world now and make life simpler for those of us with ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Just another case of HP inventing their own standards. After the last upgrade I just did I don't want to ever see a !#@$!#@#! HP tape cartridge again. Out of the last four AXE and PE tapes we received 3, repeat 3 of the 4 have been bad. Do you what its like to be part way through a upgrade and have the tape be bad ??!! Since this involved an change from a 9000-520 to a 9000-350 we made a complete backup of the disk and then tar'ed the user files and other directories to seperate tapes. The tape the the user files were on was bad at the 9th file. Thank goodness that the archive was good, but don't think we weren't wondering about it. The last thing I'd get is a HP cartridge drive. >heterogeneous (Unix) hardware. > >Mike Khaw >-- >internet: mkhaw@teknowledge.arpa >uucp: {uunet|sun|ucbvax|decwrl|ames|hplabs}!mkhaw%teknowledge.arpa >hardcopy: Teknowledge Inc, 1850 Embarcadero Rd, POB 10119, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Jim Sadler 206-234-5422 hpubvwa!b-mrda (when we get thing put back together) or bcsaic.UUCP!jsadler