Re: Tape/DVD Backup Suggestions?

At 01:54 PM 7/18/02 , Douglas Trainor wrote:
>Because in reality tape drive heads can drift over time, so you might have
>drifted away from a non-proprietary setup, and then the effect is the same.

DLTs have a special "calibration" section at the head of the tape.  Upon a
mount for read, the drive will re-read that section and scootch the head up
or down until it gets a good read.  Another of the reasons the DLT
consortium claims a 30 year archival life.


         -crl
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