On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:27:23AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > > You're talking about regular DAT tapes, not DDS tapes. Right?
> > >
> >
> > /dev/null is a lot faster than DDS but will eventually give the same results.
> 
> i'm using DDS tapes for long - no problems.
> 

Lucky you..

> 
> did you cleaned your drives every 12h of usage?

Cleaned often, but in hindsight I should've used something else for cleaning,
maybe sulphuric acid coupled with molten steel ? Well, I've had DDS-tapes
go bad on me (unreadable backups) with different hardware, different operating
systems on two occasions. I'll never trust a DDS-drive again.

I have had very good experiences with DLT-drives (and 1600bpi 9-tracks :-) 

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jht